About the Authors

Shiyan Ren

liupeng61@yahoo.com.cn (PL); lixianlun@hotmail.com (XL); shiyanr@yahoo.com (SR)

Affiliation Cardiovascular Center, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Xianlun Li

liupeng61@yahoo.com.cn (PL); lixianlun@hotmail.com (XL); shiyanr@yahoo.com (SR)

Affiliation Cardiovascular Center, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Jianyan Wen

Affiliation Clinical Research Institute, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Wenjian Zhang

Affiliation Clinical Research Institute, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Peng Liu

liupeng61@yahoo.com.cn (PL); lixianlun@hotmail.com (XL); shiyanr@yahoo.com (SR)

Affiliation Cardiovascular Center, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SR XL PL. Performed the experiments: SR XL. Analyzed the data: SR WZ JW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SR. Wrote the paper: SR.