About the Authors

Chun-rong Ju

Affiliation State Key Lab of the Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangdong, China

Miao Chen

Affiliation State Key Lab of the Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangdong, China

Jian-heng Zhang

Affiliation State Key Lab of the Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangdong, China

Zhi-ya Lin

Affiliation State Key Lab of the Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangdong, China

Rong-chang Chen

chenrc_1234@163.com

Affiliation State Key Lab of the Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RCC CRJ. Performed the experiments: CRJ MC ZYL JHZ. Analyzed the data: CRJ ZYL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CRJ ZYL JHZ. Wrote the paper: CRJ JHZ RCC.