About the Authors
- Qiu-Hua Liang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Qiu-Hua Liang, Yi Jiang
Affiliation Institute of Metabolism and Endocrinology, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China
- Yi Jiang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Qiu-Hua Liang, Yi Jiang
Affiliation Department of Pathology, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China
- Xiao Zhu
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Affiliation Institute of Metabolism and Endocrinology, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China
- Rong-Rong Cui
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Affiliations Institute of Metabolism and Endocrinology, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China, Department of Pediatrics, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China
- Guan-Ying Liu
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Affiliation Institute of Metabolism and Endocrinology, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China
- Yuan Liu
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Affiliation Institute of Metabolism and Endocrinology, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China
- Shan-Shan Wu
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Affiliation Institute of Metabolism and Endocrinology, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China
- Xiao-Bo Liao
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Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China
- Hui Xie
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Affiliation Institute of Metabolism and Endocrinology, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China
- Hou-De Zhou
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Affiliation Institute of Metabolism and Endocrinology, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China
- Xian-Ping Wu
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Affiliation Institute of Metabolism and Endocrinology, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China
- Ling-Qing Yuan
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* E-mail: allenylq@hotmail.com (LQY); eyliao007@yahoo.com.cn (EYL)
Affiliation Institute of Metabolism and Endocrinology, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China
- Er-Yuan Liao
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* E-mail: allenylq@hotmail.com (LQY); eyliao007@yahoo.com.cn (EYL)
Affiliation Institute of Metabolism and Endocrinology, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: LQY EYL. Performed the experiments: QHL YJ XZ RRC GYL SSW YL. Analyzed the data: HX HDZ XPW XBL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HX HDZ XPW. Wrote the paper: QHL LQY EYL.