About the Authors

Zhuo Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhuo Wang, Ai-Ying Li

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, People's Republic of China

Ai-Ying Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhuo Wang, Ai-Ying Li

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, People's Republic of China

Qiu-Hong Guo

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, People's Republic of China

Jian-Ping Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, People's Republic of China

Qi An

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, People's Republic of China

Ya-jing Guo

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, People's Republic of China

Li Chu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, People's Republic of China

J. Woodrow Weiss

jejesphy50@gmail.com (ESJ); jweiss@bidmc.harvard.edu (JWW)

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

En-Sheng Ji

jejesphy50@gmail.com (ESJ); jweiss@bidmc.harvard.edu (JWW)

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Designed the software used in analysis: ZW QHG QA YJG. Conceived and designed the experiments: ESJ ZW AYL. Performed the experiments: ZW AYL QHG JPZ QA. Analyzed the data: ZW AYL QHG JPZ QA YJG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ESJ AYL JPZ LC JWW. Wrote the paper: ZW AYL.