About the Authors

Feng Li

Affiliation Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Jin Zeng

Affiliation Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Yang Gao

Affiliation Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Zhenfeng Guan

Affiliation Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Zhenkun Ma

Affiliation Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Qi Shi

Affiliation Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Chong Du

Affiliation Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Jing Jia

Affiliation Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Shan Xu

Affiliation Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Xinyang Wang

Affiliation Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Luke Chang

Affiliation Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Dalin He

guopeng661@mail.xjtu.edu.cn (PG); dalinhexjtu@163.com (DH)

Affiliation Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Peng Guo

guopeng661@mail.xjtu.edu.cn (PG); dalinhexjtu@163.com (DH)

Affiliation Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FL PG JZ LC DLH. Performed the experiments: FL ZKM QS CD JJ SX XYW. Analyzed the data: FL JZ YG ZFG PG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SX XYW. Wrote the paper: FL PG.