About the Authors

Zhicheng Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhicheng Wang, Feng Cai, Xiaoyu Chen

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shanghai Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

Feng Cai

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhicheng Wang, Feng Cai, Xiaoyu Chen

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shanghai Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

Xiaoyu Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhicheng Wang, Feng Cai, Xiaoyu Chen

Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Meihong Luo

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shanghai Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

Lingling Hu

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shanghai Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yuan Lu

yuanlu@hsh.stn.sh.cn

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZW YL. Performed the experiments: ZW FC XC. Analyzed the data: ZW FC XC ML LH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZW FC XC. Wrote the manuscript: ZW YL.