About the Authors

Qi Yao

Contributed equally to this work with: Qi Yao, Ge Zhou

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Ge Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Qi Yao, Ge Zhou

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Reproductive Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Jiangsu Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Meilin Xu

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical department life science China, GE healthcare China, Beijing, China

Jianguo Dai

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Ziwei Qian

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Zijing Cai

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Luyao Zhang

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Yong Tan

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

xiangyu198110@163.com (RH); xijun1025@163.com (YT)

Affiliation Department of Reproductive Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Jiangsu Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Rongkui Hu

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

xiangyu198110@163.com (RH); xijun1025@163.com (YT)

Affiliation Department of Reproductive Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Jiangsu Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.