About the Authors

Peng Gong

gongpengdalian@163.com

Affiliation Hepatobiliary Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Yingxin Wang

Affiliation Hepatobiliary Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Gavin Liu

Affiliation Hepatobiliary Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Jing Zhang

Affiliation Hepatobiliary Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Zhongyu Wang

Affiliation Hepatobiliary Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PG GL. Performed the experiments: PG YW GL JZ ZW. Analyzed the data: YW JZ ZW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YW GL. Wrote the paper: PG JZ ZW.