About the Authors

Wei Huang

Affiliation Thoracic Surgery Department, Institute of Surgery Research, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Bo Deng

superdb@163.com(BD); wangrw53@126.com(RW)

Affiliation Thoracic Surgery Department, Institute of Surgery Research, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Ru-Wen Wang

superdb@163.com(BD); wangrw53@126.com(RW)

Affiliation Thoracic Surgery Department, Institute of Surgery Research, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Qun-You Tan

Affiliation Thoracic Surgery Department, Institute of Surgery Research, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Yong He

Affiliation Thoracic Surgery Department, Institute of Surgery Research, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Yao-Guang Jiang

Affiliation Thoracic Surgery Department, Institute of Surgery Research, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Jing-Hai Zhou

Affiliation Thoracic Surgery Department, Institute of Surgery Research, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BD. Performed the experiments: WH BD RW QT YH YJ JZ. Analyzed the data: WH BD RW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WH BD RW QT YH YJ JZ. Wrote the paper: WH BD.