About the Authors

Yuan Yuan Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuan Yuan Zhou, Zhi Gang Hu

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Respiratory medicine, The first College of Clinical Medicine science, Three Gorges University, Yichang, 443003, People’s Republic of China

Zhi Gang Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuan Yuan Zhou, Zhi Gang Hu

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Respiratory medicine, The first College of Clinical Medicine science, Three Gorges University, Yichang, 443003, People’s Republic of China

Fan Jun Zeng

zfj68@qq.com

Affiliation Department of Respiratory medicine, The first College of Clinical Medicine science, Three Gorges University, Yichang, 443003, People’s Republic of China

Jiao Han

Affiliation Department of Respiratory medicine, The first College of Clinical Medicine science, Three Gorges University, Yichang, 443003, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FJZ ZGH. Performed the experiments: ZGH YYZ. Analyzed the data: ZGH JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FJZ YYZ JH ZGH. Wrote the paper: ZGH FJZ.