About the Authors

Tonghai Xing

Contributed equally to this work with: Tonghai Xing, Li Huang, Zhenhai Yu

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Shanghai First People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Organ Transplantation Center of Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Li Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Tonghai Xing, Li Huang, Zhenhai Yu

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Shanghai First People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Organ Transplantation Center of Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Zhenhai Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Tonghai Xing, Li Huang, Zhenhai Yu

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Shandong Qianfoshan Hospital, Ji’nan, China

Lin Zhong

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Shanghai First People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Organ Transplantation Center of Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Shuyun Wang

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Shanghai First People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Organ Transplantation Center of Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Zhihai Peng

zhihai-peng@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Shanghai First People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Organ Transplantation Center of Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TX ZP. Performed the experiments: LZ SW. Analyzed the data: LH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZY. Wrote the paper: TX.