About the Authors

Jun-Meng Zhang

Affiliation Beijing An Zhen Hospital, Capital Medical University; The Key Laboratory of Remodeling-related Cardiovascular Diseases, Ministry of Education, Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing, China

Ying Wang

Affiliation Beijing An Zhen Hospital, Capital Medical University; The Key Laboratory of Remodeling-related Cardiovascular Diseases, Ministry of Education, Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing, China

Yan-Ju Miao

Affiliation Beijing An Zhen Hospital, Capital Medical University; The Key Laboratory of Remodeling-related Cardiovascular Diseases, Ministry of Education, Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing, China

Yi Zhang

Affiliation Beijing An Zhen Hospital, Capital Medical University; The Key Laboratory of Remodeling-related Cardiovascular Diseases, Ministry of Education, Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing, China

Yi-Na Wu

Affiliation Beijing An Zhen Hospital, Capital Medical University; The Key Laboratory of Remodeling-related Cardiovascular Diseases, Ministry of Education, Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing, China

Li-Xin Jia

Affiliation Beijing An Zhen Hospital, Capital Medical University; The Key Laboratory of Remodeling-related Cardiovascular Diseases, Ministry of Education, Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing, China

Yong-Fen Qi

Affiliation Beijing An Zhen Hospital, Capital Medical University; The Key Laboratory of Remodeling-related Cardiovascular Diseases, Ministry of Education, Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing, China

Jie Du

jdu@bcm.edu

Affiliation Beijing An Zhen Hospital, Capital Medical University; The Key Laboratory of Remodeling-related Cardiovascular Diseases, Ministry of Education, Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMZ JD. Performed the experiments: JMZ YW. Analyzed the data: YZ LXJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YJM YNW. Wrote the paper: JMZ YFQ JD.