About the Authors

Ruth Magaye

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruth Magaye, Qi Zhou

Affiliation Public Health Department of Medical School, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Pathological and Physiological Technology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China

Qi Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruth Magaye, Qi Zhou

Affiliation Public Health Department of Medical School, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Pathological and Physiological Technology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China

Linda Bowman

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Pathology and Physiology Research Branch, Health Effects Laboratory Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Baobo Zou

Affiliation Public Health Department of Medical School, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Pathological and Physiological Technology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China

Guochuan Mao

Affiliation Public Health Department of Medical School, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Pathological and Physiological Technology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China

Jin Xu

Affiliation Public Health Department of Medical School, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Pathological and Physiological Technology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China

Vincent Castranova

Affiliation Pathology and Physiology Research Branch, Health Effects Laboratory Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Jinshun Zhao

zhaojinshun@nbu.edu.cn (JZ); mid5@cdc.gov (MD)

Affiliations Public Health Department of Medical School, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Pathological and Physiological Technology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China, Pathology and Physiology Research Branch, Health Effects Laboratory Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Min Ding

zhaojinshun@nbu.edu.cn (JZ); mid5@cdc.gov (MD)

Affiliation Pathology and Physiology Research Branch, Health Effects Laboratory Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JZ VC MD. Performed the experiments: RM QZ LB GM. Analyzed the data: RM JX BZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JZ RM LB QZ. Wrote the paper: JZ RM LB QZ.