About the Authors

Hong Xue

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Xue, Ping Yuan

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Ping Yuan

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Xue, Ping Yuan

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Department of Pulmonary Circulation Research Center, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Jun Ni

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Chen Li

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Decui Shao

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Jia Liu

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Yang Shen

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Zhen Wang

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Li Zhou

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Wei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Yu Huang

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences and Institute of Vascular Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Chen Yu

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Rui Wang

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Department of Biology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada

Limin Lu

lulimin@shmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HX PY YH CY RW LL. Performed the experiments: HX PY JN CL DS JL YS ZW LZ. Analyzed the data: HX PY WZ. Wrote the manuscript: HX PY LL.