About the Authors

Cuicui Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Cuicui Gao, Yao Shen

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China, Department of blood transfusion, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China

Yao Shen

Contributed equally to this work with: Cuicui Gao, Yao Shen

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Fang Jin

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Yajing Miao

Affiliation Research Center for Basic Medical Science, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Xiaofei Qiu

qiouxf@tijmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XFQ CCG YJM. Performed the experiments: CCG YS FJ. Analyzed the data: YJM XFQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YS FJ. Wrote the paper: CCG.