About the Authors

Baodong Xie

‡ BaodongXie and Chunfeng Zhang are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Chunfeng Zhang

‡ BaodongXie and Chunfeng Zhang are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Kai Kang

kai1kang@sina.com (KK); jiangshulin@aliyun.com (SJ)

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Shulin Jiang

kai1kang@sina.com (KK); jiangshulin@aliyun.com (SJ)

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BX CZ KK SJ. Performed the experiments: BX CZ KK SJ. Analyzed the data: BX CZ KK SJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BX CZ KK SJ. Wrote the paper: BX CZ KK SJ.