About the Authors

Xian-Ming Xia

xiaxm2000@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui Province, People's Republic of China

Fang-Yu Wang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China

Ju Zhou

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui Province, People's Republic of China

Kai-Feng Hu

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui Province, People's Republic of China

Su-Wen Li

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui Province, People's Republic of China

Bing-Bing Zou

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui Province, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XMX. Performed the experiments: XMX KFH SWL. Analyzed the data: XMX BBZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HKF JZ. Wrote the paper: XMX FYW.