About the Authors

Guang-Li Ren

Contributed equally to this work with: Guang-Li Ren, Guang-Yu Huang, Hong Zheng

guangliren@hotmail.com

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, General Hospital of GuangZhou Military Command of PLA, GuangZhou, China, The Biochemistry Institute of the Technology University of South China and the HuaBo Biopharmceutics Institute of GuangZhou, GuangZhou, China

Guang-Yu Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Guang-Li Ren, Guang-Yu Huang, Hong Zheng

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, ChongQing, China

Hong Zheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Guang-Li Ren, Guang-Yu Huang, Hong Zheng

Affiliation Department of Oral Orthopaedic, Dental Hospital of Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Ying Fang

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, Medical College of GuangZhou, GuangZhou, China

Heng-Hao Ma

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, General Hospital of GuangZhou Military Command of PLA, GuangZhou, China

Man-Chun Xu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, General Hospital of GuangZhou Military Command of PLA, GuangZhou, China

Hong-Bin Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, General Hospital of GuangZhou Military Command of PLA, GuangZhou, China

Wei-Yun Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, General Hospital of GuangZhou Military Command of PLA, GuangZhou, China

Ya-Gang Zhao

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology General Hospital of GuangZhou Military Command of PLA, GuangZhou, China

Da-Yong Sun

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology General Hospital of GuangZhou Military Command of PLA, GuangZhou, China

Wen-Kui Hu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, General Hospital of GuangZhou Military Command of PLA, GuangZhou, China, Department of Gerontology and the Deanery, General Hospital of GuangZhou Military Command of PLA, GuangZhou, China

Jian Liu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, General Hospital of GuangZhou Military Command of PLA, GuangZhou, China, Department of Gerontology and the Deanery, General Hospital of GuangZhou Military Command of PLA, GuangZhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RGL LJ. Performed the experiments: RGL HGY ZH ZHB ZWY. Analyzed the data: FY MHH XMC ZHB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MHH ZYG SDY. Wrote the paper: RGL HWK.