About the Authors
- Dun-Fa Peng
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Tian-Ling Hu
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Barbara G. Schneider
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Zheng Chen
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Affiliations Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Ze-Kuan Xu
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Affiliations Department of General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Institute of Tumor Biology, Jiangsu Province Academy of Clinical Medicine, Nanjing, China
- Wael El-Rifai
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* E-mail: wael.el-rifai@Vanderbilt.edu
Affiliations Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Veterans Affairs Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Competing Interests
Co-author Wael El-Rifai is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DFP WER ZKX BS. Performed the experiments: TLH ZC DP. Analyzed the data: DFP WER. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DFP WER. Wrote the paper: DFP WER BS.