About the Authors

Ling Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ling Zhang, Yun-bo Wu

Roles Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliations Institute of Gastroenterology, Science and Technology Innovation Center, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Science and Technology Innovation Center, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Yun-bo Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ling Zhang, Yun-bo Wu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Software

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliations Institute of Gastroenterology, Science and Technology Innovation Center, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Science and Technology Innovation Center, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Yun-kai Dai

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliations Institute of Gastroenterology, Science and Technology Innovation Center, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Science and Technology Innovation Center, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Qi Liu

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliations Institute of Gastroenterology, Science and Technology Innovation Center, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Science and Technology Innovation Center, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Yu-jie Ren

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Institute of Gastroenterology, Science and Technology Innovation Center, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Science and Technology Innovation Center, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Shi-jie Xu

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Science and Technology Innovation Center, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Huai-geng Pan

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Science and Technology Innovation Center, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Wei-jing Chen

Roles Supervision

Affiliations Institute of Gastroenterology, Science and Technology Innovation Center, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Science and Technology Innovation Center, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Ru-liu Li

Roles Supervision

Affiliations Institute of Gastroenterology, Science and Technology Innovation Center, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Science and Technology Innovation Center, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Ling Hu

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision

drhuling@163.com

Affiliations Institute of Gastroenterology, Science and Technology Innovation Center, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Science and Technology Innovation Center, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.