About the Authors

Wen-Nan Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Wen-Nan Liu, Kai-Li Fu

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Function Research, Chinese Ministry of Education and Chinese Ministry of Public Health, Ji’nan, People’s Republic of China, Department of Cardiology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Ji’nan, People’s Republic of China

Kai-Li Fu

Contributed equally to this work with: Wen-Nan Liu, Kai-Li Fu

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Function Research, Chinese Ministry of Education and Chinese Ministry of Public Health, Ji’nan, People’s Republic of China, Department of Cardiology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Ji’nan, People’s Republic of China

Hai-Yang Gao

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Function Research, Chinese Ministry of Education and Chinese Ministry of Public Health, Ji’nan, People’s Republic of China, Department of Cardiology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Ji’nan, People’s Republic of China

Yuan-Yuan Shang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Function Research, Chinese Ministry of Education and Chinese Ministry of Public Health, Ji’nan, People’s Republic of China, Department of Cardiology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Ji’nan, People’s Republic of China

Zhi-Hao Wang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Function Research, Chinese Ministry of Education and Chinese Ministry of Public Health, Ji’nan, People’s Republic of China, Department of Cardiology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Ji’nan, People’s Republic of China

Gui-Hua Jiang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Function Research, Chinese Ministry of Education and Chinese Ministry of Public Health, Ji’nan, People’s Republic of China, Department of Cardiology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Ji’nan, People’s Republic of China

Yun Zhang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Function Research, Chinese Ministry of Education and Chinese Ministry of Public Health, Ji’nan, People’s Republic of China, Department of Cardiology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Ji’nan, People’s Republic of China

Wei Zhang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Function Research, Chinese Ministry of Education and Chinese Ministry of Public Health, Ji’nan, People’s Republic of China, Department of Cardiology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Ji’nan, People’s Republic of China

Ming Zhong

zhongmingzm@gmail.com

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Function Research, Chinese Ministry of Education and Chinese Ministry of Public Health, Ji’nan, People’s Republic of China, Department of Cardiology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Ji’nan, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: W-NL Z-HW. Performed the experiments: W-NL K-LF. Analyzed the data: W-NL Y-YS Z-HW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: W-NL K-LF G-HJ. Wrote the paper: W-NL H-YG. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: YZ WZ MZ.