About the Authors

Weizhi Zhang

Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China, Department of Pediatrics, Women and Infants Hospital, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Naohiro Yano

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Women and Infants Hospital, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Minzi Deng

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Women and Infants Hospital, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Quanfu Mao

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Women and Infants Hospital, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Sunil K. Shaw

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Women and Infants Hospital, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Yi-Tang Tseng

YTseng@wihri.org

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Women and Infants Hospital, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WZ YTT. Performed the experiments: WZ NY MD YTT. Analyzed the data: WZ QM YTT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MD QM SKS. Wrote the paper: WZ YTT.