About the Authors

Runzhi Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Runzhi Zhu, Guofang Zeng

Affiliation Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical College, Zhanjiang, China

Guofang Zeng

Contributed equally to this work with: Runzhi Zhu, Guofang Zeng

Affiliation Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical College, Zhanjiang, China

Yinqin Chen

Affiliation Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical College, Zhanjiang, China

Qingyu Zhang

Affiliation Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical College, Zhanjiang, China

Bin Liu

Affiliation Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical College, Zhanjiang, China

Jie Liu

Affiliation Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical College, Zhanjiang, China

Hege Chen

hepatolab2012@yahoo.cn (ML); chenhege@hotmail.com (HC)

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Mingyi Li

hepatolab2012@yahoo.cn (ML); chenhege@hotmail.com (HC)

Affiliation Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical College, Zhanjiang, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MYL HGC. Performed the experiments: RZZ GFZ YQC JL. Analyzed the data: QYZ BL. Wrote the paper: RZZ.