About the Authors

Bo Chen

Affiliations Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Sino-American Institute for Translational Medicine, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Bing Yi

Affiliation Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Rui Mao

Affiliation Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Haitao Liu

Affiliation Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Jinhua Wang

Affiliations Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Sino-American Institute for Translational Medicine, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, People's Republic of China, Jiangsu Cancer Hospital, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Ashok Sharma

Affiliation Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Stephen Peiper

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Warren J. Leonard

Affiliation National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jin-Xiong She

jshe@georgiahealth.edu

Affiliations Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Sino-American Institute for Translational Medicine, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed histological analysis: SP. Conceived and designed the experiments: BC JXS. Performed the experiments: BC BY RM HL JW. Analyzed the data: BC AS JXS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WJL. Wrote the paper: BC SP WJL JXS.