About the Authors

Sanming Deng

Contributed equally to this work with: Sanming Deng, Ye Yang

Affiliations Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tangdu Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China, Department of Thoracic Surgery, The Hospital of Medical College of Chinese People's Armed Police Force, Tianjin, China

Ye Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Sanming Deng, Ye Yang

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shaanxi Province People's Hospital, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China

Yong Han

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tangdu Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China

Xiaofei Li

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tangdu Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China

Xiaoping Wang

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tangdu Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China

Xueyong Li

Affiliation Department of Plastics and Burns, Tangdu Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China

Zhipei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tangdu Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China

Yunjie Wang

wangyjphd@yahoo.cn

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tangdu Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SD YY YW. Performed the experiments: SD YY. Analyzed the data: SD YH XL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XW XL ZZ. Wrote the paper: SD YW. Obtained permission for use of cell line: YW.