About the Authors

Kashif Kifayat

Contributed equally to this work with: Kashif Kifayat, Kamaljot Singh

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

Affiliation Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Department of General Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China

Kamaljot Singh

Contributed equally to this work with: Kashif Kifayat, Kamaljot Singh

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Faculty of the Basic and Applied Sciences, Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab, India

Mahmood Khan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China

Dur E. Maknoon Razia

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Software

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, College of Basic Medicinal sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Sara Khan

Roles Conceptualization, Software, Validation

wangbcc259@163.com (LW); dongchengy@126.com (CD); sarakhan@cuiatd.edu.pk (SK)

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Chengyong Dong

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

wangbcc259@163.com (LW); dongchengy@126.com (CD); sarakhan@cuiatd.edu.pk (SK)

Affiliation Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Department of General Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China

Liming Wang

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

wangbcc259@163.com (LW); dongchengy@126.com (CD); sarakhan@cuiatd.edu.pk (SK)

Affiliation Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Department of General Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.