About the Authors

Guang-Bing Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Guang-Bing Li, Xue-Li Zhang

Affiliation Department of Liver Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

Xue-Li Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Guang-Bing Li, Xue-Li Zhang

Affiliations Department of Liver Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, People’s Republic of China, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Liaocheng People Hospital, Liaocheng, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

Li Yuan

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

Qi-Qi Jiao

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

De-Jie Liu

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

Jun Liu

Dr_liujun@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Liver Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: G-BL JL. Performed the experiments: G-BL X-LZ LY Q-QJ. Analyzed the data: G-BL D-JL JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: X-LZ LY Q-QJ. Wrote the paper: G-BL X-LZ JL.