About the Authors

Ping Peng

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Peng, Jiangfang Lian

Affiliations Ningbo Medical Center, Lihuili Hospital, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China, The Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

Jiangfang Lian

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Peng, Jiangfang Lian

Affiliation Ningbo Medical Center, Lihuili Hospital, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

R. Stephanie Huang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Limin Xu

Affiliation The Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

Yi Huang

Affiliation The Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

Yanna Ba

Affiliations Ningbo Medical Center, Lihuili Hospital, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China, The Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

Xi Yang

Affiliation Ningbo Medical Center, Lihuili Hospital, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

Xiaoyan Huang

Affiliation Ningbo Medical Center, Lihuili Hospital, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

Changzhen Dong

Affiliation The Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

Lina Zhang

Affiliation The Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

Meng Ye

Affiliation The Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

Jianqing Zhou

hjmpin@163.com (JZ); duanshiwei@nbu.edu.cn (SD)

Affiliation Ningbo Medical Center, Lihuili Hospital, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

Shiwei Duan

hjmpin@163.com (JZ); duanshiwei@nbu.edu.cn (SD)

Affiliation The Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SD JL JZ. Performed the experiments: PP LX YH. Analyzed the data: CD LZ MY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YB XY XH. Wrote the paper: PP SD RSH JL JZ.