About the Authors

Qing Ye

Contributed equally to this work with: Qing Ye, Weili Yin

Affiliations The Third Central Clinical College of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, PR China, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Artificial Cells, Tianjin Institute of Hepatobiliary Disease, Tianjin Third Central Hospital, Tianjin, PR China

Weili Yin

Contributed equally to this work with: Qing Ye, Weili Yin

Affiliations The Third Central Clinical College of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, PR China, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Artificial Cells, Tianjin Institute of Hepatobiliary Disease, Tianjin Third Central Hospital, Tianjin, PR China

Lei Zhang

Affiliation Clinical Laboratory of Tianjin Third Central Hospital, Tianjin, China

Huijuan Xiao

Affiliations The Third Central Clinical College of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, PR China, Department of Nutriology, Tianjin Third Central Hospital, Tianjin, China

Yumei Qi

Affiliation Department of Nutriology, Tianjin Third Central Hospital, Tianjin, China

Shuye Liu

Affiliation Clinical Laboratory of Tianjin Third Central Hospital, Tianjin, China

Baoxin Qian

Affiliations The Third Central Clinical College of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, PR China, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Artificial Cells, Tianjin Institute of Hepatobiliary Disease, Tianjin Third Central Hospital, Tianjin, PR China

Fengmei Wang

Affiliations The Third Central Clinical College of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, PR China, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Artificial Cells, Tianjin Institute of Hepatobiliary Disease, Tianjin Third Central Hospital, Tianjin, PR China

Tao Han

hantaomd@126.com

Affiliations The Third Central Clinical College of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, PR China, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Artificial Cells, Tianjin Institute of Hepatobiliary Disease, Tianjin Third Central Hospital, Tianjin, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: QY YMQ TH. Data curation: QY SYL TH. Formal analysis: QY HJX. Funding acquisition: TH. Investigation: QY HJX. Methodology: QY LZ. Project administration: TH. Resources: QY WLY FMW. Software: QY WLY LZ. Supervision: TH. Validation: QY FMW TH. Visualization: QY BXQ TH. Writing – original draft: QY WLY. Writing – review & editing: QY BXQ TH.