About the Authors

Zhifeng Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhifeng Huang, Huiyan Wang, Meifei Lu

Affiliations School of Pharmacy and Chinese-American Research Institute for Diabetic Complications, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, Normal Bethune Medical College, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

Huiyan Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhifeng Huang, Huiyan Wang, Meifei Lu

Affiliation Normal Bethune Medical College, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

Meifei Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhifeng Huang, Huiyan Wang, Meifei Lu

Affiliation School of Pharmacy and Chinese-American Research Institute for Diabetic Complications, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

Chuanchuan Sun

Affiliation School of Pharmacy and Chinese-American Research Institute for Diabetic Complications, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

Xiaoping Wu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Tissue Transplantation and Immunology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Yi Tan

Affiliations School of Pharmacy and Chinese-American Research Institute for Diabetic Complications, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, Department of Pediatrics, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Chaohui Ye

Affiliation School of Pharmacy and Chinese-American Research Institute for Diabetic Complications, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

Guanghui Zhu

Affiliation School of Pharmacy and Chinese-American Research Institute for Diabetic Complications, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

Xiaojie Wang

Affiliation School of Pharmacy and Chinese-American Research Institute for Diabetic Complications, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

Lu Cai

L0cai001@louisville.edu (LC); xiaokunli@163.net (XL)

Affiliations School of Pharmacy and Chinese-American Research Institute for Diabetic Complications, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, Department of Pediatrics, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Xiaokun Li

L0cai001@louisville.edu (LC); xiaokunli@163.net (XL)

Affiliations School of Pharmacy and Chinese-American Research Institute for Diabetic Complications, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, Normal Bethune Medical College, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Tissue Transplantation and Immunology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZH LC XL. Performed the experiments: ZH HW ML CS XW YT CY GZ XW. Analyzed the data: ZH LC. Wrote the paper: ZH LC XL.