About the Authors

Xin Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Wu, Tongda Xu

Affiliation Institute of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, PR China

Tongda Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Wu, Tongda Xu

Affiliation Department of The First Clinical College, Nanjing Traditional Chinese Medicine University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China

Dongye Li

ldy@xzmc.edu.cn (DL); sunh@xzmc.edu.cn (HS)

Affiliations Institute of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, PR China, Department of The First Clinical College, Nanjing Traditional Chinese Medicine University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China

Shasha Zhu

Affiliation Institute of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, PR China

Qiuping Chen

Affiliation Institute of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, PR China

Wenjing Hu

Affiliation Institute of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, PR China

Defeng Pan

Affiliation Institute of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, PR China

Hong Zhu

Affiliation Institute of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, PR China

Hong Sun

ldy@xzmc.edu.cn (DL); sunh@xzmc.edu.cn (HS)

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DL HS. Performed the experiments: XW TX. Analyzed the data: SZ QC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WH DP HZ. Wrote the paper: XW TX. Revised the manuscript: DL.