About the Authors

Xin Guo

Affiliations Department of Physiology, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Department of Urology, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China

Xu Huang

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yi-song Wu

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Dong-hai Liu

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Hong-li Lu

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yong-chul Kim

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Chungbuk National University College of Medicine, Cheongju, Republic of Korea

Wen-xie Xu

wenxiexu@sjtu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WX. Performed the experiments: XG XH YW DL HL YK. Analyzed the data: XG WX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YW DL HL YK. Wrote the paper: WX XG.