About the Authors

Xuming Jia

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Collage of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

Tuanjie Chang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Collage of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

Thomas W. Wilson

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Collage of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

Lingyun Wu

lwu@lakeheadu.ca

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, Collage of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, Department of Health Sciences, Lakehead University and Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute, Thunder Bay, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XJ TC LW. Performed the experiments: XJ TC. Analyzed the data: XJ TC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TWW. Wrote the paper: XJ TC LW.