About the Authors

Aiping Lan

Contributed equally to this work with: Aiping Lan, Xinxue Liao

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Xinxue Liao

Contributed equally to this work with: Aiping Lan, Xinxue Liao

Affiliation Department of Cardiovasology, the First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Liqiu Mo

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, the First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Chuntao Yang

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Zhanli Yang

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Xiuyu Wang

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Fen Hu

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Peixi Chen

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Jianqiang Feng

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Dongdan Zheng

Affiliation Department of Cardiovasology, Region of Huang pu, the First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Liangcan Xiao

xiaoliangcan@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, the First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AL XL JF DZ LX. Performed the experiments: AL XL DZ. Analyzed the data: AL XL JF DZ LX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LM XL. Wrote the paper: JF AL XL. Detected the ROS content: CY ZY XW. Participated in designing the study: PC FH.