About the Authors

Li Ying

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Ying, Ziwei Zhu

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, the Second Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dailan, China

Ziwei Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Ying, Ziwei Zhu

Affiliation Department of Respiratory, the Second Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dailan, China

Zhiyun Xu

Affiliation Department of Respiratory, the Second Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dailan, China

Tianrui He

Affiliation School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Encheng Li

Affiliation Department of Respiratory, the Second Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dailan, China

Zhe Guo

Affiliation Department of Respiratory, the Second Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dailan, China

Fen Liu

Affiliation Department of Respiratory, the Second Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dailan, China

Chunmeng Jiang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, the Second Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dailan, China

Qi Wang

wqdlmu@163.com

Affiliation Department of Respiratory, the Second Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dailan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LY ZZ QW. Performed the experiments: LY ZZ EL. Analyzed the data: ZX TH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZG FL. Wrote the paper: LY CJ.