About the Authors

Bin Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Xu, Na Tong

Affiliations Department of Urology, Affiliated Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, Surgical Research Center, Medical School, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Na Tong

Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Xu, Na Tong

Affiliation Department of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Shu-Qiu Chen

Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Yu Yang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Xiao-Wen Zhang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Jin Liu

Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Xiang-Nong Hu

Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Guo-Zhu Sha

Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Ming Chen

mingchenseu@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Urology, Affiliated Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, Surgical Research Center, Medical School, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BX MC. Performed the experiments: BX NT S-QC. Analyzed the data: BX YY X-WZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NT JL X-NH G-ZS. Wrote the paper: BX.