About the Authors

Yinchuan Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yinchuan Xu, Xinyang Hu

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Cardiovascular key lab of Zhejiang Province, the Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Xinyang Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yinchuan Xu, Xinyang Hu

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Cardiovascular key lab of Zhejiang Province, the Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Lihan Wang

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Cardiovascular key lab of Zhejiang Province, the Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Zhi Jiang

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Cardiovascular key lab of Zhejiang Province, the Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Xianbao Liu

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Cardiovascular key lab of Zhejiang Province, the Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Hong Yu

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Cardiovascular key lab of Zhejiang Province, the Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Zhaocai Zhang

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Cardiovascular key lab of Zhejiang Province, the Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Huiqiang Chen

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Cardiovascular key lab of Zhejiang Province, the Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Han Chen

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Cardiovascular key lab of Zhejiang Province, the Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Gustav Steinhoff

Affiliation Reference and Translation Center for Cardiac Stem Cell Therapy, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Jun Li

jian_an_wang@yahoo.com (JW); jun.li@sjtu.edu.cn (JL)

Affiliation Clinical Stem Cell Research Center and Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Jian’an Wang

jian_an_wang@yahoo.com (JW); jun.li@sjtu.edu.cn (JL)

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Cardiovascular key lab of Zhejiang Province, the Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YX XH HY GS JL JW. Performed the experiments: YX XH LW ZJ ZZ HQC HC XL. Analyzed the data: YX XH LW JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW. Wrote the manuscript: YX XH JL.