About the Authors

Shixing Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Shixing Wu, Bin Liu

Affiliation Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical College, Zhanjiang, China

Bin Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Shixing Wu, Bin Liu

Affiliation Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical College, Zhanjiang, China

Qingyu Zhang

Affiliation Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical College, Zhanjiang, China

Jie Liu

Affiliation Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical College, Zhanjiang, China

Wei Zhou

Affiliation Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical College, Zhanjiang, China

Chang Wang

Affiliation Emergency Department, Ningde Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Ningde, China

Mingyi Li

hepatolab@163.com (ML); handuney@163.com (SB); hepatolab@gmail.com (RZ)

Affiliation Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical College, Zhanjiang, China

Shiting Bao

hepatolab@163.com (ML); handuney@163.com (SB); hepatolab@gmail.com (RZ)

Affiliation Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical College, Zhanjiang, China

Runzhi Zhu

hepatolab@163.com (ML); handuney@163.com (SB); hepatolab@gmail.com (RZ)

Affiliation Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical College, Zhanjiang, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MYL STB. Performed the experiments: SXW BL QYZ JL WZ CW. Analyzed the data: BL QYZ. Wrote the paper: RZZ.