About the Authors

Yang Liu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital and College of Basic Medical Sciences of China Medical University, Shenyang, PR China

Qian-Ze Dong

Affiliation Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital and College of Basic Medical Sciences of China Medical University, Shenyang, PR China

Si Wang

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, College of Basic Medical Sciences of China Medical University, Shenyang, PR China

Hong-Tao Xu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital and College of Basic Medical Sciences of China Medical University, Shenyang, PR China

Yuan Miao

Affiliation Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital and College of Basic Medical Sciences of China Medical University, Shenyang, PR China

Liang Wang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital and College of Basic Medical Sciences of China Medical University, Shenyang, PR China

En-Hua Wang

wangeh@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital and College of Basic Medical Sciences of China Medical University, Shenyang, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL QZD EHW. Performed the experiments: YL QZD YM LW. Analyzed the data: YL HTX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SW. Wrote the paper: YL LW.