About the Authors

Weiwei Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Weiwei Chen, Xiang Cheng

Affiliations Department of Anatomy, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China, Department of Radiotherapy, The 3rd People’s Hospital of Yancheng, The Affiliated Yancheng Hospital of Southeast University, Yancheng, Jiangsu, China

Xiang Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Weiwei Chen, Xiang Cheng

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Jinzhong Chen

Affiliation Department of Radiotherapy, The 3rd People’s Hospital of Yancheng, The Affiliated Yancheng Hospital of Southeast University, Yancheng, Jiangsu, China

Xin Yi

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Dekang Nie

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Xiaohui Sun

Affiliation Cardiovascular Department, Rehabilitation Hospital of Agings, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Jianbing Qin

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Meiling Tian

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Guohua Jin

jguohua@ntu.edu.cn (GJ); zhangxinhua@ntu.edu.cn (XZ)

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Xinhua Zhang

jguohua@ntu.edu.cn (GJ); zhangxinhua@ntu.edu.cn (XZ)

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XZ GJ. Performed the experiments: WC XC JC XY DN. Analyzed the data: XZ MT JQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XC XS. Wrote the paper: XZ.