About the Authors

Weixing Ding

Contributed equally to this work with: Weixing Ding, Dong-lei Zhou

Weixing_Ding@163.com (WXD); liesheng_lu@163.com (LSL)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Tenth People’s Hospital of Tongji University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Dong-lei Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Weixing Ding, Dong-lei Zhou

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Tenth People’s Hospital of Tongji University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Xun Jiang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Tenth People’s Hospital of Tongji University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Lie-sheng Lu

Weixing_Ding@163.com (WXD); liesheng_lu@163.com (LSL)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Tenth People’s Hospital of Tongji University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WXD LSL. Performed the experiments: WXD DLZ XJ. Analyzed the data: WXD DLZ XJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WXD DLZ XJ LSL. Wrote the paper: WXD DLZ LSL.