Acknowledgements: The authors would like to express their thanks for Dr. CUI Bo, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center. Durham, NC, USA for his assistance for the preparation of this manuscript. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30500500).
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