About the Authors

Yuan Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuan Guo, Yi Zhang

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China, Department of Pharmacy, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China

Yi Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuan Guo, Yi Zhang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China

Kai Hong

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China

Fengyan Luo

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China

Qiuping Gu

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China

Nonghua Lu

NL and AB share senior authorship on this work.

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China

Aiping Bai

baiap@163.com

NL and AB share senior authorship on this work.

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB YG YZ. Performed the experiments: YG YZ KH FL QG NL AB. Analyzed the data: YG YZ KH NL AB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB. Wrote the paper: AB YG NL. Designed the software used in analysis: AB. Obtained permission for use of cell line: AB NL.