About the Authors

Xiaoyan Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoyan Xu, Mingdong Zhao

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Binzhou Medical University, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

Mingdong Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoyan Xu, Mingdong Zhao

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Yantai Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

Xianbing Liu

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Binzhou Medical University, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

Yuzhu Jiang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Binzhou Medical University, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

Haixia Zhang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Binzhou Medical University, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

Xiaoyu Zhai

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Binzhou Medical University, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

Ling Zhang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Binzhou Medical University, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

Xuemei Hu

xue-mei-hu@163.com

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Binzhou Medical University, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Collected samples: XX. Conceived and designed the experiments: XH XX MZ. Performed the experiments: XH XX MZ XL YJ HZ XZ LZ. Analyzed the data: XH XX YJ HZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XH XX XL LZ XZ. Wrote the paper: XH XX MZ.