About the Authors

Guo-Jun Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Guo-Jun Zhao, Shi-Lin Tang

Affiliations Institute of Cardiovascular Research, Key Laboratory for Atherosclerology of Hunan Province, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China, Department of Histology and Embryology, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China

Shi-Lin Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Guo-Jun Zhao, Shi-Lin Tang

Affiliation Institute of Cardiovascular Research, Key Laboratory for Atherosclerology of Hunan Province, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China

Yun-Cheng Lv

Affiliation Institute of Cardiovascular Research, Key Laboratory for Atherosclerology of Hunan Province, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China

Xin-Ping Ouyang

Affiliation Institute of Cardiovascular Research, Key Laboratory for Atherosclerology of Hunan Province, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China

Ping-Ping He

Affiliations Institute of Cardiovascular Research, Key Laboratory for Atherosclerology of Hunan Province, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China, School of Nursing, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China

Feng Yao

Affiliation Institute of Cardiovascular Research, Key Laboratory for Atherosclerology of Hunan Province, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China

Wu-Jun Chen

Affiliation Institute of Cardiovascular Research, Key Laboratory for Atherosclerology of Hunan Province, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China

Qian Lu

Affiliation Institute of Cardiovascular Research, Key Laboratory for Atherosclerology of Hunan Province, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China

Yan-Yan Tang

Affiliation Institute of Cardiovascular Research, Key Laboratory for Atherosclerology of Hunan Province, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China

Min Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Cardiovascular Research, Key Laboratory for Atherosclerology of Hunan Province, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China

Yuchang Fu

Affiliation Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Da-Wei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Group on the Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Kai Yin

kaiyinby@yahoo.com.cn (KY); tangchaoke@qq.com (C-KT)

Affiliation Institute of Cardiovascular Research, Key Laboratory for Atherosclerology of Hunan Province, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China

Chao-Ke Tang

kaiyinby@yahoo.com.cn (KY); tangchaoke@qq.com (C-KT)

Affiliation Institute of Cardiovascular Research, Key Laboratory for Atherosclerology of Hunan Province, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CKT KY. Performed the experiments: GJZ SLT YCL XPO PPH FY WJC QL. Analyzed the data: YYT MZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CKT. Wrote the paper: GJZ SLT DWZ YF.