About the Authors

Guanglin Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Guanglin Tang, Wiebke-Felicitas Nierath, Emily Leitner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Rudolf-Zenker-Institute for Experimental Surgery, Rostock University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany, Department of General Surgery, Fushun Central Hospital, Fushun, Liaoning, China

Wiebke-Felicitas Nierath

Contributed equally to this work with: Guanglin Tang, Wiebke-Felicitas Nierath, Emily Leitner

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Rudolf-Zenker-Institute for Experimental Surgery, Rostock University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany

Emily Leitner

Contributed equally to this work with: Guanglin Tang, Wiebke-Felicitas Nierath, Emily Leitner

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Rudolf-Zenker-Institute for Experimental Surgery, Rostock University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany

Wentao Xie

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Rudolf-Zenker-Institute for Experimental Surgery, Rostock University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany

Denis Revskij

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine II, Rostock University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany

Nico Seume

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Rudolf-Zenker-Institute for Experimental Surgery, Rostock University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany

Xianbin Zhang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Rudolf-Zenker-Institute for Experimental Surgery, Rostock University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany, Department of General Surgery & Institute of Precision Diagnosis and Treatment of Gastrointestinal Tumors, Shenzhen University General Hospital & Shenzhen University Clinical Medical Academy, Shenzhen, China

Luise Ehlers

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Fushun Central Hospital, Fushun, Liaoning, China

Brigitte Vollmar

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Rudolf-Zenker-Institute for Experimental Surgery, Rostock University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany

Dietmar Zechner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

dietmar.zechner@uni-rostock.de

Affiliation Rudolf-Zenker-Institute for Experimental Surgery, Rostock University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.