About the Authors

Zhou Song

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhou Song, Wen Yue

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, General Hospital of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China

Wen Yue

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhou Song, Wen Yue

Affiliation Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Lab, Beijing Institute of Transfusion Medicine, Beijing, China

Bo Wei

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, General Hospital of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China

Ning Wang

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, General Hospital of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China

Tao Li

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, General Hospital of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China

Lidong Guan

Affiliation Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Lab, Beijing Institute of Transfusion Medicine, Beijing, China

Shuangshuang Shi

Affiliation Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Lab, Beijing Institute of Transfusion Medicine, Beijing, China

Quan Zeng

Affiliation Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Lab, Beijing Institute of Transfusion Medicine, Beijing, China

Xuetao Pei

peixt@nic.bmi.ac.cn (XP); chenlinbj@vip.sina.com (LC)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Lab, Beijing Institute of Transfusion Medicine, Beijing, China

Lin Chen

peixt@nic.bmi.ac.cn (XP); chenlinbj@vip.sina.com (LC)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, General Hospital of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LC XP ZS WY. Performed the experiments: ZS WY. Analyzed the data: ZS WY QZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BW NW TL LG SS QZ. Wrote the paper: ZS WY LC XP.