About the Authors

Huili Zhang

huili.zhang815@gmail.com (HZ); changqianwang@hotmail.com (CW)

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Alian Zhang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Changfa Guo

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Chunzhi Shi

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Qing Liu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Anna Sparatore

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche “Pietro Pratesi,” Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

Changqian Wang

huili.zhang815@gmail.com (HZ); changqianwang@hotmail.com (CW)

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HZ CW. Performed the experiments: HZ AZ CG. Analyzed the data: CS YZ QL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS. Wrote the paper: HZ.