About the Authors

Ying Luo

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Luo, Dun-Quan Xu, Hai-Ying Dong

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, People’s Republic of China, Department of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xìan, People’s Republic of China

Dun-Quan Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Luo, Dun-Quan Xu, Hai-Ying Dong

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xìan, People’s Republic of China

Hai-Ying Dong

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Luo, Dun-Quan Xu, Hai-Ying Dong

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xìan, People’s Republic of China

Bo Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xìan, People’s Republic of China

Yi Liu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xìan, People’s Republic of China

Wen Niu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xìan, People’s Republic of China

Ming-Qing Dong

lizhic@fmmu.edu.cn (ZCL); dongmqxh@fmmu.edu.cn (MQD)

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xìan, People’s Republic of China

Zhi-Chao Li

lizhic@fmmu.edu.cn (ZCL); dongmqxh@fmmu.edu.cn (MQD)

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, People’s Republic of China, Department of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xìan, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MQD ZCL Y. Luo. Performed the experiments: YL HYD DQX Y. Liu BZ WN. Analyzed the data: Y. Luo MQD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MQD ZCL BZ. Wrote the paper: MQD Y. Luo.