About the Authors

Jian Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jian Wu, Shun-Li Shen

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, PR China

Shun-Li Shen

Contributed equally to this work with: Jian Wu, Shun-Li Shen

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, PR China

Bin Chen

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, PR China

Jing Nie

pengbaogang@medmail.com.cn (BGP); niejing2006@126.com (JN)

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, PR China

Bao-Gang Peng

pengbaogang@medmail.com.cn (BGP); niejing2006@126.com (JN)

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JN. Performed the experiments: JW. Analyzed the data: SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BC. Wrote the paper: JW BGP.