About the Authors

Bin Xie

Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Xie, Penghui Zhang

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Daping Hospital & Institute of Surgery Research, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Penghui Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Xie, Penghui Zhang

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Menggang Liu

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Daping Hospital & Institute of Surgery Research, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Wei Zeng

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Daping Hospital & Institute of Surgery Research, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Juntao Yang

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Daping Hospital & Institute of Surgery Research, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Hongming Liu

lhming56@163.com

Current address: Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Daping Hospital & Institute of Surgery Research, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China.

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Daping Hospital & Institute of Surgery Research, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BX PZ HL ML. Performed the experiments: BX PZ WZ JY ML. Analyzed the data: BX PZ JY HL ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PZ HL. Wrote the paper: BX HL.