About the Authors

Xiao-Qing Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao-Qing Tang, Heng-Rong Fang

txq01001@gmail.com (X-QT); bridgeman1025@yahoo.com.cn (PZ)

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Medical College, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, P. R. China

Heng-Rong Fang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao-Qing Tang, Heng-Rong Fang

Affiliations Department of Physiology, Medical College, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, P. R. China, Department of Pharmacy, Hengyang Central Hospital, Hengyang, Hunan, P. R. China

Cheng-Fang Zhou

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Medical College, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, P. R. China

Yuan-Yuan Zhuang

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Medical College, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, P. R. China

Ping Zhang

txq01001@gmail.com (X-QT); bridgeman1025@yahoo.com.cn (PZ)

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Nanhua Affiliated Hospital, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, P. R. China

Hong-Feng Gu

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Medical College, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, P. R. China

Bi Hu

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Medical College, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data and critical revision of the manuscript: X-QT PZ. Conceived and designed the experiments: X-QT. Performed the experiments: H-RF C-FZ Y-YZ PZ H-FG BH. Analyzed the data: X-QT H-RF. Wrote the paper: X-QT.