About the Authors

Chu-chao Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chu-chao Zhu, Bin Tang, Jin Su

Affiliation Department of Human Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710032, China

Bin Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chu-chao Zhu, Bin Tang, Jin Su

Affiliation Department of International Medical, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing 100029, China

Jin Su

Contributed equally to this work with: Chu-chao Zhu, Bin Tang, Jin Su

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710032, China

Hu Zhao

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710032, China

Xin Bu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710032, China

Zhen Li

Affiliation Department of Human Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710032, China

Jie Zhao

Affiliation Department of Human Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710032, China

Wei-dong Gong

Affiliation Department of Interventional Radiology, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710038, China

Zhi-qun Wu

Affiliation Department of Interventional Radiology, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710038, China

Li-bo Yao

bioyao@fmmu.edu.cn (LY); liweipepeyato@163.com (WL); zhangyq@fmmu.edu.cn (YZ)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710032, China

Wei Li

bioyao@fmmu.edu.cn (LY); liweipepeyato@163.com (WL); zhangyq@fmmu.edu.cn (YZ)

Affiliation Department of Human Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710032, China

Yuan-qiang Zhang

bioyao@fmmu.edu.cn (LY); liweipepeyato@163.com (WL); zhangyq@fmmu.edu.cn (YZ)

Affiliation Department of Human Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710032, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WL YZ. Performed the experiments: CZ BT JS HZ XB ZL JZ WG ZW. Analyzed the data: CZ BT JS HZ XB ZL JZ WG ZW LY WL YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZ LY. Wrote the paper: CZ WL.