About the Authors

Shanshan Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shanshan Wang, Encheng Li

Affiliation Graduate School of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, People's Republic of China

Encheng Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Shanshan Wang, Encheng Li

Affiliation Graduate School of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, People's Republic of China

Yanghui Gao

Affiliation Graduate School of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, People's Republic of China

Yan Wang

Affiliation Graduate School of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, People's Republic of China

Zhe Guo

Affiliation Graduate School of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, People's Republic of China

Jiarui He

Affiliation Graduate School of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, People's Republic of China

Jianing Zhang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Glycobiology, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China

Zhancheng Gao

wqdmu@yahoo.com.cn (QW); gaozhancheng5446@163.com (ZG)

Affiliation Departments of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China

Qi Wang

wqdmu@yahoo.com.cn (QW); gaozhancheng5446@163.com (ZG)

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Second Hospital Affiliated to Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Embellished the manuscript: JZ Z. Gao QW. Conceived and designed the experiments: SW EL Z. Gao QW. Performed the experiments: SW EL. Analyzed the data: SW EL YW YG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Z. Guo JH Z. Gao QW. Wrote the paper: SW QW Z. Gao.