About the Authors

Yumei Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yumei Liu, Hongwei Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Harbin Medical University, Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurobiology, Harbin, China

Hongwei Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yumei Liu, Hongwei Wang

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Xinyue Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Harbin Medical University, Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurobiology, Harbin, China

Lili Mu

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Harbin Medical University, Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurobiology, Harbin, China

Qingfei Kong

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Harbin Medical University, Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurobiology, Harbin, China

Dandan Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Harbin Medical University, Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurobiology, Harbin, China

Jinghua Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Harbin Medical University, Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurobiology, Harbin, China

Yao Zhang

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Harbin Medical University, Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurobiology, Harbin, China

Jinfeng Yang

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Harbin Medical University, Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurobiology, Harbin, China

Mingyan Zhou

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Harbin Medical University, Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurobiology, Harbin, China

Guangyou Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Harbin Medical University, Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurobiology, Harbin, China

Bo Sun

lihulun@yahoo.com.cn (HL); sunbo720@yahoo.com.cn (BS)

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Harbin Medical University, Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurobiology, Harbin, China

Hulun Li

lihulun@yahoo.com.cn (HL); sunbo720@yahoo.com.cn (BS)

Affiliations Department of Neurobiology, Harbin Medical University, Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurobiology, Harbin, China, The Key Laboratory of Myocardial Ischemia, Chinese Ministry of Education, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL HL HW. Performed the experiments: YL LM QK YZ JY MZ GW BS HL. Analyzed the data: YL XW DW JW HL HW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YL HW XW LM QK DW JW YZ JY MZ GW BS HL. Wrote the paper: YL BS HL.