About the Authors

Dan Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Liu, Ming Shi

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, People's Republic of China

Ming Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Liu, Ming Shi

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Hao Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Lu Qian

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Ming Yu

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Meiru Hu

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Ruihong Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, People's Republic of China

Tianyou Wang

Affiliation Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Caili Han

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, People's Republic of China

Huijun Duan

duanhj999@163.com (HD); ningguo@nic.bmi.ac.cn (NG)

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, People's Republic of China

Ning Guo

duanhj999@163.com (HD); ningguo@nic.bmi.ac.cn (NG)

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DL MS HJD NG. Performed the experiments: DL MS HZ LQ MY MRH RHZ TYW CLH. Analyzed the data: DL MS HJD NG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DL MS HJD NG. Wrote the paper: DL MS HJD NG.