About the Authors

Yan Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Li, Ning Xu

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Xijing Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China, Department of Anesthesiology, Shaanxi Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Ning Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Li, Ning Xu

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Xijing Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Lei Cai

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Zijun Gao

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Xijing Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Lan Shen

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology and the State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Qiaomei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Xijing Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Wugang Hou

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Xijing Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Haixing Zhong

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Xijing Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Qiang Wang

wangqiang@fmmu.edu.cn (QW); lxiong@fmmu.edu.cn (LX)

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Xijing Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Lize Xiong

wangqiang@fmmu.edu.cn (QW); lxiong@fmmu.edu.cn (LX)

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Xijing Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL NX LC QW LX. Performed the experiments: YL NX LC ZG LS QZ WH HZ. Analyzed the data: YL NX LC ZG LS QZ WH HZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LC LS. Wrote the paper: YL NX QW LX.