About the Authors

Wen Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Wen Yang, Wenkui Sun

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

Wenkui Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Wen Yang, Wenkui Sun

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

Qian Li

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

Yanwen Yao

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

Tangfeng Lv

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

Junli Zeng

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

Wenjun Liang

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

Xiaojun Zhou

Affiliation Department of pathology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University, School of Medicine, Nanjing, China

Yong Song

yong_song6310@yahoo.com

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YS XZ TL. Performed the experiments: WY WS. Analyzed the data: WY YY JZ WL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WY WS. Wrote the paper: WY WS QL.