About the Authors

Chengfen Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chengfen Wang, Kan Chen

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Kan Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Chengfen Wang, Kan Chen

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yujing Xia

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Weiqi Dai

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Fan Wang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Miao Shen

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Ping Cheng

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Junshan Wang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Jie Lu

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Jing Yang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Rong Zhu

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Huawei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Jingjing Li

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yuanyuan Zheng

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yingqun Zhou

yqzh02@163.com (YZ); guochuanyong@hotmail.com (CG)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Chuanyong Guo

yqzh02@163.com (YZ); guochuanyong@hotmail.com (CG)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CG Y. Zhou. Performed the experiments: CW KC YX WD FW MS PC. Analyzed the data: CW KC JW J. Lu Y. Zhang JY RZ HZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PC JW J. Lu Y. Zhang JY RZ HZ J. Li Y. Zheng. Wrote the paper: CW.