About the Authors

Jun Qin

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

Ni Fang

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

Jinning Lou

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

Wenjian Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

Shiqing Xu

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

Honglin Liu

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

Qing Fang

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

Zai Wang

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

Jiang Liu

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

Xiuli Men

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, North China Coal Medical University, Tangshan, China

Liang Peng

pengliang8028@163.com (LP); chenli3@medmail.com.cn (LC)

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

Li Chen

pengliang8028@163.com (LP); chenli3@medmail.com.cn (LC)

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LC LP JL. Performed the experiments: JQ NF SX ZW JL XM. Analyzed the data: JQ LP WZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HL QF. Wrote the paper: JQ LP.