About the Authors

Jiaqian Cui

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiaqian Cui, Haiyan Zhang, Yan Cheng

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Medical School of Nantong University, Nantong, China

Haiyan Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiaqian Cui, Haiyan Zhang, Yan Cheng

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Medical School of Nantong University, Nantong, China

Yan Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiaqian Cui, Haiyan Zhang, Yan Cheng

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Cancer Stem Cell, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China

Xiaolin Bi

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

li_dong@ntu.edu.cn (DL); bixl@ntu.edu.cn (XB)

Affiliation Medical School of Nantong University, Nantong, China

Dong Li

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

li_dong@ntu.edu.cn (DL); bixl@ntu.edu.cn (XB)

Affiliation Medical School of Nantong University, Nantong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.