About the Authors

Yini Dang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, and First Clinical Medical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Jan D. Reinhardt

Affiliations Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, and Hong Kong Polytechnical University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, China, Department of Health Sciences, University of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland, Swiss Paraplegic Research, Nottwil, Switzerland

Xiaoying Zhou

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, and First Clinical Medical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Guoxin Zhang

guoxinz@njmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, and First Clinical Medical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YD GZ. Performed the experiments: YD XZ. Analyzed the data: YD JDR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XZ. Wrote the paper: YD JDR GZ.