About the Authors

Tiansuo Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Tiansuo Zhao, Song Gao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Department of Pancreatic Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Song Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Tiansuo Zhao, Song Gao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Department of Pancreatic Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Xiuchao Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Department of Pancreatic Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Jingcheng Liu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Department of Pancreatic Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Yitao Duan

Affiliation The Ministry-of-Education Key Laboratory of System Bioengineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

Zhanna Yuan

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Department of Pancreatic Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Jun Sheng

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Department of Pancreatic Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Shasha Li

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Department of Pancreatic Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Feng Wang

Affiliation Institute of Chinese and Modern Medicines for Acute Abdominal Diseases, Tianjin Medical University Nankai Hospital, Tianjin, China

Ming Yu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Department of Pancreatic Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

He Ren

jihuihao@yahoo.com (JH); herenrh@yahoo.com.cn (HR)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Department of Pancreatic Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Jihui Hao

jihuihao@yahoo.com (JH); herenrh@yahoo.com.cn (HR)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Department of Pancreatic Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HR TZ JH. Performed the experiments: TZ SG XW JL YD ZY JS SL. Analyzed the data: FW MY HR TZ JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TZ SG XW JL. Wrote the paper: HR SG TZ JH.