About the Authors

Ning Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Ning Lin, Wei Yan, Kaiming Gao

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Wei Yan

Contributed equally to this work with: Ning Lin, Wei Yan, Kaiming Gao

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Kaiming Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Ning Lin, Wei Yan, Kaiming Gao

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Yinyi Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Junxia Zhang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Yongping You

yypl9@njmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NL WY YY. Performed the experiments: NL WY. Analyzed the data: NL WY KG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KG YW JZ. Wrote the paper: NL WY YY.