About the Authors

Jian Qi

Contributed equally to this work with: Jian Qi, Hua Zhang

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and K. K. Leung Brain Research Centre, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Hua Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jian Qi, Hua Zhang

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and K. K. Leung Brain Research Centre, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Jun Guo

Affiliation Department of Physiology, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Le Yang

Affiliation Undergraduate Student of the 2007 in Pharmacology, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Wen Wang

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and K. K. Leung Brain Research Centre, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Tao Chen

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and K. K. Leung Brain Research Centre, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Hui Li

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and K. K. Leung Brain Research Centre, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Sheng-Xi Wu

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and K. K. Leung Brain Research Centre, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Yun-Qing Li

deptanat@fmmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and K. K. Leung Brain Research Centre, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JQ HZ. Performed the experiments: JQ HZ JG LY. Analyzed the data: WW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HL TC. Wrote the paper: S-XW Y-QL.