About the Authors

Jinxia Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinxia Liu, Xin Cheng, Zhengrong Guo

Affiliation The Liver Diseases Diagnosis and Treatment Center of PLA, Bethune International Peace Hospital, Shijiazhuang, People’s Republic of China

Xin Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinxia Liu, Xin Cheng, Zhengrong Guo

Affiliation The Liver Diseases Diagnosis and Treatment Center of PLA, Bethune International Peace Hospital, Shijiazhuang, People’s Republic of China

Zhengrong Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinxia Liu, Xin Cheng, Zhengrong Guo

Affiliation The Liver Diseases Diagnosis and Treatment Center of PLA, Bethune International Peace Hospital, Shijiazhuang, People’s Republic of China

Zihua Wang

Affiliation The Liver Diseases Diagnosis and Treatment Center of PLA, Bethune International Peace Hospital, Shijiazhuang, People’s Republic of China

Dong Li

Affiliation The Liver Diseases Diagnosis and Treatment Center of PLA, Bethune International Peace Hospital, Shijiazhuang, People’s Republic of China

Fubiao Kang

Affiliation The Liver Diseases Diagnosis and Treatment Center of PLA, Bethune International Peace Hospital, Shijiazhuang, People’s Republic of China

Haijun Li

Affiliation The Liver Diseases Diagnosis and Treatment Center of PLA, Bethune International Peace Hospital, Shijiazhuang, People’s Republic of China

Baosheng Li

Affiliation The Liver Diseases Diagnosis and Treatment Center of PLA, Bethune International Peace Hospital, Shijiazhuang, People’s Republic of China

Zhichen Cao

Affiliation Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Liver Disease, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, People’s Republic of China

Michael Nassal

sundianxing@hotmail.com (DS); nassal2@ukl.uni-freiburg.de (MN)

Affiliation University Hospital Freiburg, Internal Medicine II/Molecular Biology, Freiburg, Germany

Dianxing Sun

sundianxing@hotmail.com (DS); nassal2@ukl.uni-freiburg.de (MN)

Affiliation The Liver Diseases Diagnosis and Treatment Center of PLA, Bethune International Peace Hospital, Shijiazhuang, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DS MN XC. Performed the experiments: JL XC. Analyzed the data: DS MN XC. Wrote the paper: DS MN XC. Assisted with performing the experiments: ZG ZW DL FK HL BL ZC.