About the Authors

Wei Cui

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Cui, Jie Ma, Xingqin Wang

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Jie Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Cui, Jie Ma, Xingqin Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Tangdu Hospital, Forth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Xingqin Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Cui, Jie Ma, Xingqin Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Tangdu Hospital, Forth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Wenjuan Yang

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Jing Zhang

Affiliation No. 371 Central Hospital of People’s Liberation Army, Xinxiang, China

Qiuhe Ji

jqiuhe@fmmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WC JM QHJ. Performed the experiments: WC JM XQW WJY JZ. Analyzed the data: WC JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QHJ. Wrote the paper: WC JM XQW.