About the Authors

Junli Zeng

Contributed equally to this work with: Junli Zeng, Guannan Wu

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Southern Medical University (Guangzhou), Nanjing, China 210002

Guannan Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Junli Zeng, Guannan Wu

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China 210002

Wen Yang

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China 210002

Xiaoling Gu

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China 210002

Wenjun Liang

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China 210002

Yanwen Yao

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China 210002

Yong Song

yong.song6310@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Respiratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Southern Medical University (Guangzhou), Nanjing, China 210002, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China 210002

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JLZ GNW YS. Performed the experiments: JLZ WY. Analyzed the data: GNW XLG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WJL YWY. Wrote the paper: JLZ GNW YS.