About the Authors

Ying Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Zhu, Ning Wu

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Ning Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Zhu, Ning Wu

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Hai-Dong Huang

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Yu-Chao Dong

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Qin-Ying Sun

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Wei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Qin Wang

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Qiang Li

liqres@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ NW QL. Performed the experiments: YZ NW H-DH Y-CD Q-YS WZ QW QL. Analyzed the data: YZ NW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: H-DH Y-CD Q-YS WZ QW. Wrote the paper: YZ NW QL.