About the Authors

Zhiqiang Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiqiang Cao, Geng Zhang, Fuli Wang

Affiliation Department of Urinary Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Geng Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiqiang Cao, Geng Zhang, Fuli Wang

Affiliation Department of Urinary Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Fuli Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiqiang Cao, Geng Zhang, Fuli Wang

Affiliation Department of Urinary Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Hongbao Liu

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Long Liu

Affiliation Liaoning Province Translational Medicine Laboratory, Department of Urinary Urology and Cardiology of General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region, Shenyang, China

Yaling Han

hanyaling2013@aliyun.com (YH); biozhangj@hotmail.com (JZ); yuanjianlin2013@aliyun.com (JY)

Affiliations Department of Urinary Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China, Liaoning Province Translational Medicine Laboratory, Department of Urinary Urology and Cardiology of General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region, Shenyang, China

Jian Zhang

hanyaling2013@aliyun.com (YH); biozhangj@hotmail.com (JZ); yuanjianlin2013@aliyun.com (JY)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Jianlin Yuan

hanyaling2013@aliyun.com (YH); biozhangj@hotmail.com (JZ); yuanjianlin2013@aliyun.com (JY)

Affiliation Department of Urinary Surgery, 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: ZC GZ JZ JY. Performed the experiments: ZC GZ. Analyzed the data: ZC GZ FW LL YH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZC FW HL LL JZ JY. Wrote the paper: ZC JY.