About the Authors

Zhiyuan Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiyuan Tang, Xudong Wang

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, 226001, Jiangsu, China

Xudong Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiyuan Tang, Xudong Wang

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, 226001, Jiangsu, China

Jianfei Huang

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University. Nantong, 226001, Jiangsu, China, Department of Clinical Bio-bank, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Xiaoyu Zhou

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, 226001, Jiangsu, China

Hao Xie

Affiliation Key Lab of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210009, China

Qilin Zhu

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, 226001, Jiangsu, China

Minjie Huang

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, 226001, Jiangsu, China

Songshi Ni

jsntnss@163.com

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, 226001, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ZT XW SN. Data curation: ZT. Formal analysis: ZT QZ XZ. Investigation: ZT XW JH SN. Methodology: ZT MH QZ. Project administration: XW. Resources: ZT JH XZ QZ MH. Software: XW JH HX. Supervision: SN. Validation: ZT XW SN. Visualization: ZT QZ. Writing – original draft: ZT. Writing – review & editing: ZT SN.