About the Authors

Hong Peng

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central-South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China

Min Yang

Affiliations Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central-South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China, Human Key Laboratory of Medical Epigenomics, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central-South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China

Zhi-yong Chen

Affiliation Department of Urology, Xiangya Hospital of Central-South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China

Ping Chen

pingchen0731@sina.com

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central-South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China

Cha-xiang Guan

Affiliation Physiological Research Center, Xiangya Medical School of Central-South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China

Xu-dong Xiang

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central-South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China

Shan Cai

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central-South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China

Yan Chen

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central-South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China

Xiang Fang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HP PC. Performed the experiments: HP MY ZYC XDX SC. Analyzed the data: HP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CXG XF YC. Wrote the paper: HP XF.