About the Authors

Junqiang Yan

Contributed equally to this work with: Junqiang Yan, Yunqi Xu, Cansheng Zhu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Yunqi Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Junqiang Yan, Yunqi Xu, Cansheng Zhu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Cansheng Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Junqiang Yan, Yunqi Xu, Cansheng Zhu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Limin Zhang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Aimin Wu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Yu Yang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Zhaojun Xiong

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Chao Deng

Affiliation Centre for Translational Neuroscience, School of Health Sciences, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Xu-Feng Huang

Affiliation Centre for Translational Neuroscience, School of Health Sciences, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Midori A. Yenari

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Yuan-Guo Yang

Affiliation Med-X Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Weihai Ying

Affiliation Med-X Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Qing Wang

denniswq@yahoo.com

Affiliations Department of Neurology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China, Centre for Translational Neuroscience, School of Health Sciences, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JQY YQX CSZ QW. Performed the experiments: JQY YQX CSZ QW. Analyzed the data: LMZ AMW YY ZJX MAY YGY WHY CD XFH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CD XFH. Wrote the paper: MAY XFH QW.