About the Authors

Miao Shen

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, People‘s Republic of China

Jie Lu

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, People‘s Republic of China

Ping Cheng

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, People‘s Republic of China

Chunlei Lin

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, People‘s Republic of China

Weiqi Dai

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, People‘s Republic of China

Fan Wang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, People‘s Republic of China

Chengfen Wang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, People‘s Republic of China

Yan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, People‘s Republic of China

Kan Chen

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, People‘s Republic of China

Ling Xu

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, People‘s Republic of China

Yinqun Zhou

yqzh02@163.com (Y. Zhou); guochuanyong@hotmail.com (CG)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, People‘s Republic of China

Chuanyong Guo

yqzh02@163.com (Y. Zhou); guochuanyong@hotmail.com (CG)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, People‘s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Y. Zhou CG. Performed the experiments: MS JL PC CL WD FW. Analyzed the data: MS CW Y. Zhang. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KC LX. Wrote the paper: MS.