About the Authors

Hai-Lan Piao

Contributed equally to this work with: Hai-Lan Piao, Song-Cun Wang

Affiliation Laboratory for Reproductive Immunology, Hospital and Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fudan University Shanghai Medical College, Shanghai, China

Song-Cun Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hai-Lan Piao, Song-Cun Wang

Affiliation Laboratory for Reproductive Immunology, Hospital and Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fudan University Shanghai Medical College, Shanghai, China

Yu Tao

Affiliation Laboratory for Reproductive Immunology, Hospital and Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fudan University Shanghai Medical College, Shanghai, China

Rui Zhu

Affiliation Laboratory for Reproductive Immunology, Hospital and Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fudan University Shanghai Medical College, Shanghai, China

Chan Sun

Affiliation Laboratory for Reproductive Immunology, Hospital and Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fudan University Shanghai Medical College, Shanghai, China

Qiang Fu

Affiliation Laboratory for Reproductive Immunology, Hospital and Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fudan University Shanghai Medical College, Shanghai, China

Mei-Rong Du

dmrlq1973@yahoo.com.cn (M-RD); djli@shmu.edu.cn (D-JL)

Affiliation Laboratory for Reproductive Immunology, Hospital and Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fudan University Shanghai Medical College, Shanghai, China

Da-Jin Li

dmrlq1973@yahoo.com.cn (M-RD); djli@shmu.edu.cn (D-JL)

Affiliations Laboratory for Reproductive Immunology, Hospital and Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fudan University Shanghai Medical College, Shanghai, China, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hainan Medical College Affiliated Hospital, Haikou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: H-LP S-CW M-RD D-JL. Performed the experiments: H-LP S-CW YT RZ CS QF M-RD. Analyzed the data: H-LP M-RD D-JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: H-LP S-CW RZ YT CS QF M-RD. Drafting of the manuscript: M-RD. Revision of manuscript: M-RD YT D-JL.