About the Authors

Dongbo Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Dongbo Zhao, Nannan Ning

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute, Jinan, China

Nannan Ning

Contributed equally to this work with: Dongbo Zhao, Nannan Ning

Affiliation Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China

Zhen Lei

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

Hua Sun

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute, Jinan, China

Chuanfei Wei

Affiliation Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China

Dawei Chen

Affiliation Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China

Jingxin Li

Affiliation Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL. Performed the experiments: DZ NN ZL HS CW DC. Analyzed the data: DZ NN ZL JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CW DC. Wrote the paper: JL.