About the Authors

Lin Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Zhao, Aihua Gu

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Aihua Gu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Zhao, Aihua Gu

Affiliation School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Guixiang Ji

Affiliations School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Key Laboratory of Pesticide Environmental Assessment and Pollution Control, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Nanjing, China

Peng Zou

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Peng Zhao

zhaopeng@njmu.edu.cn (PZ); luailin.eric@163.com (AL)

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Ailin Lu

zhaopeng@njmu.edu.cn (PZ); luailin.eric@163.com (AL)

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: P. Zhao AL. Performed the experiments: LZ GJ. Analyzed the data: AG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: P. Zou. Wrote the paper: LZ.