About the Authors

Hongcai Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongcai Wang, Yan Chen

whc2891@126.com (HCW); wangtaowh@hust.edu.cn (TW)

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University, Binzhou City, Shandong Province, China

Yan Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongcai Wang, Yan Chen

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Jinbo Chen

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University, Binzhou City, Shandong Province, China

Zhentao Zhang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Wansheng Lao

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Yangxin traditional Chinese medical hospital, Yangxin County, Binzhou City, Shandong Province, China

Xizhi Li

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University, Binzhou City, Shandong Province, China

Jinsha Huang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Tao Wang

whc2891@126.com (HCW); wangtaowh@hust.edu.cn (TW)

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JBC XZL JSH TW. Performed the experiments: HCW YC. Analyzed the data: ZTZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WSL. Wrote the paper: HCW YC. Drafting of manuscript: WSL XZL.