About the Authors

Fan Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Fan Wang, Lei He, Wei-Qi Dai

Lei He

Contributed equally to this work with: Fan Wang, Lei He, Wei-Qi Dai

Wei-Qi Dai

Contributed equally to this work with: Fan Wang, Lei He, Wei-Qi Dai

Ya-Ping Xu
Dong Wu
Chun-Lei Lin
Shu-Mei Wu
Ping Cheng
Yan Zhang
Miao Shen
Chen-Feng Wang
Jie Lu
Ying-Qun Zhou
Xuan-Fu Xu
Ling Xu

xuling606@sina.com (LX); guochuanyong@hotmail.com (CYG)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Chuan-Yong Guo

xuling606@sina.com (LX); guochuanyong@hotmail.com (CYG)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LX CYG. Performed the experiments: FW LH WQD YPX DW CLL SMW PC YZ MS CFW. Analyzed the data: JL YQZ XFX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LX LH WQD. Wrote the paper: FW.