About the Authors

Xia Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Xia Li, Wei Chen, Lei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Xijing Institute of Clinical Neuroscience, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Wei Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Xia Li, Wei Chen, Lei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Lei Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xia Li, Wei Chen, Lei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Xijing Institute of Clinical Neuroscience, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Wen-bo Liu

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Xijing Institute of Clinical Neuroscience, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Zhou Fei

fmmuzhoufei@163.com

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Xijing Institute of Clinical Neuroscience, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XL ZF. Performed the experiments: XL WC LZ. Analyzed the data: XL WC WBL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XL LZ WBL. Wrote the manuscript: XL ZF.