About the Authors

Rui Kong

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Kong, Guang Jia

Affiliation Department of Pancreatic and Biliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People's Republic of China

Guang Jia

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Kong, Guang Jia

Affiliation Department of Pancreatic and Biliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People's Republic of China

Zhuo-xin Cheng

Affiliation Department of Pancreatic and Biliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People's Republic of China

Yong-wei Wang

Affiliation Department of Pancreatic and Biliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People's Republic of China

Ming Mu

Affiliation Department of Biology, School of Agriculture and Life Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Shuang-jia Wang

Affiliation Department of Pancreatic and Biliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People's Republic of China

Shang-ha Pan

Affiliation Department of Pancreatic and Biliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People's Republic of China

Yue Gao

Affiliation Department of Pancreatic and Biliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People's Republic of China

Hong-chi Jiang

Affiliation Department of Pancreatic and Biliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People's Republic of China

De-li Dong

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Bei Sun

sunbei70@tom.com

Affiliation Department of Pancreatic and Biliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RK BS GJ. Performed the experiments: RK GJ YW SW ZC. Analyzed the data: HJ DD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GJ MM YG SP. Wrote the paper: RK GJ.