About the Authors

Jin Feng

Contributed equally to this work with: Jin Feng, Xiaolin Pan

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

Xiaolin Pan

Contributed equally to this work with: Jin Feng, Xiaolin Pan

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

Junbo Yu

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

Zheng Chen

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

Hao Xu

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

Wael El-Rifai

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Cancer Biology, and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Guoxin Zhang

xuzekuan@njmu.edu.cn (ZX); guoxinz@njmu.edu.cn (GZ)

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

Zekuan Xu

xuzekuan@njmu.edu.cn (ZX); guoxinz@njmu.edu.cn (GZ)

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, 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: ZX GZ ZC WER. Performed the experiments: JF XP JY HX. Analyzed the data: JF XP WER ZC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GZ. Wrote the paper: JF.