About the Authors

Rihua Zhang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Xiaolin Pan

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Zuhu Huang

Affiliation Department of Infection Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Georg F. Weber

Affiliation University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center, College of Pharmacy, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Guoxin Zhang

guoxinz@njmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GZ GW. Performed the experiments: RZ XP. Analyzed the data: GW GZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZH. Wrote the paper: RZ GZ.