About the Authors

Xiang-yan Meng

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiang-yan Meng, Hai-long Yu

Affiliations Institute of Health and Environmental Medicine, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Tianjin, China, Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Logistics University of Chinese People's Armed Police Force, Tianjin, China

Hai-long Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiang-yan Meng, Hai-long Yu

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Logistics University of Chinese People's Armed Police Force, Tianjin, China

Wen-cheng Zhang

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Logistics University of Chinese People's Armed Police Force, Tianjin, China

Tian-hui Wang

Affiliation Institute of Health and Environmental Medicine, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Tianjin, China

Xia Mai

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Logistics University of Chinese People's Armed Police Force, Tianjin, China

Hong-tao Liu

liuhongt@sina.com (HTL); xu_rc@sohu.com (RCX)

Affiliation Institute of Health and Environmental Medicine, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Tianjin, China

Rui-cheng Xu

liuhongt@sina.com (HTL); xu_rc@sohu.com (RCX)

Affiliation Tianjin Key Laboratory for Biomarkers of Occupational and Environmental Hazard, Logistics University of Chinese People's Armed Police Forces, Tianjin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RCX XYM WCZ HTL. Performed the experiments: XYM HLY XM. Analyzed the data: XYM HLY WCZ THW XM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XYM HLY THW XM. Wrote the paper: XYM HLY RCX.