About the Authors

Zhanjun Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhanjun Li, Min Tu, Wentao Gao

Affiliation Laboratory of General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Min Tu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhanjun Li, Min Tu, Wentao Gao

Affiliation Laboratory of General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Bei Han

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Nanjing Children's Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Yuqing Gu

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Taicang City First People's Hospital, Suzhou, China

Xiaofeng Xue

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Suzhou University, Suzhou, China

Jie Sun

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Fuyang People's Hospital, Fuyang, China

Qianqian Ge

Affiliation Laboratory of General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Yi Miao

Affiliations Laboratory of General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Zhuyin Qian

qianzhusilver@163.com (ZQ); gao11@hotmail.com (WG)

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Wentao Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhanjun Li, Min Tu, Wentao Gao

qianzhusilver@163.com (ZQ); gao11@hotmail.com (WG)

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZYQ WTG. Performed the experiments: ZJL MT. Analyzed the data: ZJL MT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BH YQG XFX JS QQG. Wrote the paper: ZJL MT WTG. Critical revision of the manuscript for important content: ZJL MT BH ZYQ WTG YM.