About the Authors

Zhu-mei Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhu-mei Shi, Jing Wang

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

Jing Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhu-mei Shi, Jing Wang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Cancer Center, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Zhiping Yan

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Cancer Center, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Yong-ping You

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

Chong-yong Li

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Cancer Center, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Xu Qian

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Cancer Center, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Yu Yin

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Cancer Center, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Peng Zhao

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

Ying-ying Wang

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

Xie-feng Wang

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

Ming-na Li

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

Ling-Zhi Liu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ning Liu

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

Bing-Hua Jiang

binghjiang@yahoo.com

Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Pathology, Cancer Center, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZMS JW BHJ. Performed the experiments: ZMS JW YPY CYL XQ PZ YYW XFW ZY YY ML. Analyzed the data: ZMS LZL NL BHJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YPY NL BHJ. Wrote the paper: ZMS JW LZL BHJ.