About the Authors

Yu-jiao Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-jiao Wu, Xin Yang

Affiliations Department of Pharmacy, Changzhou Third People’s Hospital, Changzhou, China, College of Pharmacy, Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Xin Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-jiao Wu, Xin Yang

Affiliations The Fourth Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Cancer Hospital Cancer Institute of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China

Xiao-xiao Wang

Affiliation Department of Bio-statistics, Georgia Health Science University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Man-Tang Qiu

Affiliations The Fourth Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Cancer Hospital Cancer Institute of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China

Yi-zhong You

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Changzhou First People’s Hospital, Changzhou, China

Zhi-xin Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Changzhou Third People’s Hospital, Changzhou, China

Shan-mei Zhu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Changzhou Third People’s Hospital, Changzhou, China

Lin Xu

xulin83cn@gmail.com (LX); tangfengleicn@163.com (F-lT)

Affiliations The Fourth Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Cancer Hospital Cancer Institute of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China

Feng-lei Tang

xulin83cn@gmail.com (LX); tangfengleicn@163.com (F-lT)

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Changzhou Third People’s Hospital, Changzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YJW XY LX FLT. Performed the experiments: YJW XY XXW YZY ZXZ SMZ LX FLT. Analyzed the data: YJW XY XXW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YJW XY XXW MTQ. Wrote the paper: YJW XY XXW. Access to full-text article: YJW XY.