About the Authors

Sha Wan

Contributed equally to this work with: Sha Wan, Songhao Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, College of Basic Medicine, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China

Songhao Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Sha Wan, Songhao Wang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, College of Basic Medicine, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China

Xianfei Yang

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

Affiliation Guangxi Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China

Yalan Cui

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Anatomy, College of Basic Medicine, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China, Clinical Pathology Department, The Second People’s Hospital of Yichang, Yichang, China

Heng Guan

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, College of Basic Medicine, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China

Wenping Xiao

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, College of Basic Medicine, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China

Fang Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

fang.liu@msn.com

Affiliations Department of Anatomy, College of Basic Medicine, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China, Center of Diabetic Systems Medicine, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Excellence, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.