About the Authors

Cuihong Xie

Contributed equally to this work with: Cuihong Xie, Shabei Xu

Affiliation Department of Emergency, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Shabei Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Cuihong Xie, Shabei Xu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Fengfei Ding

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Minjie Xie

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Jiagao Lv

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Jihua Yao

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Dengji Pan

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Qian Sun

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Chenchen Liu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Tie Chen

Affiliation Division of Clinical Immunology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, PR China

Shusheng Li

shushengli16@hotmail.com (SL); wwang@tjh.tjmu.edu.cn (WW)

Affiliation Department of Emergency, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Wei Wang

shushengli16@hotmail.com (SL); wwang@tjh.tjmu.edu.cn (WW)

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WW SL. Performed the experiments: CX FD QS CL. Analyzed the data: CX FD SX. Wrote the paper: CX FD SX MX TC. Contributed to discussions and interpretation of the data: JL JY DP.