About the Authors

Xue Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xue Yu, Jiajun Lv

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Beijing Hospital, Ministry of Health, Beijing, China

Jiajun Lv

Contributed equally to this work with: Xue Yu, Jiajun Lv

Affiliation Department of Digestive Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Yunzhen Zhu

Affiliation Department of Digestive Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Liping Duan

Affiliation Department of Digestive Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Lanqing Ma

mlq6006@yahoo.cn

Affiliation Department of Digestive Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed the experiments: XY JL LM YZ. Analyzed the data: XY LM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL LD. Wrote the paper: XY LM.