About the Authors

Yong Zeng

zengyong1999@yahoo.com (YZ); hhli1935@yahoo.cn (HHL)

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Peking Union Medical Hospital, Beijing, China

Hong-Xia Wang

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Remodeling-related Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Pathology and Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Shu-Bin Guo

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Peking Union Medical Hospital, Beijing, China

Hui Yang

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Remodeling-related Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Pathology and Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Xiang-Jun Zeng

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Remodeling-related Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Pathology and Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Quan Fang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Peking Union Medical Hospital, Beijing, China

Chao-Shu Tang

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Remodeling-related Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Pathology and Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Jie Du

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Remodeling-related Cardiovascular Diseases, Laboratory of Vascular Biology, Beijing Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing Anzhen Hospital Affiliated the Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Hui-Hua Li

zengyong1999@yahoo.com (YZ); hhli1935@yahoo.cn (HHL)

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Remodeling-related Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Pathology and Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HHL JD CST. Performed the experiments: YZ HXW SBG HY XJZ. Analyzed the data: YZ HXW HY QF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HHL JD YZ QF. Wrote the paper: HHL JD.