About the Authors

Li-Juan Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Li-Juan Zhu, Meng-Ying Liu, Huan Li

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacy College, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Institute of Neuroscience, Coochow University, Su zhou, China

Meng-Ying Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Li-Juan Zhu, Meng-Ying Liu, Huan Li

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacy College, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Huan Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Li-Juan Zhu, Meng-Ying Liu, Huan Li

Affiliations College of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China, School of Applied Science, Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore, Singapore

Xiao Liu

Affiliation College of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China

Chen Chen

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacy College, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Zhou Han

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacy College, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Hai-Yin Wu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacy College, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Xing Jing

Affiliation The affiliated suzhou hospital of nanjing medical university, Su zhou, China

Hai-Hui Zhou

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacy College, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Hoonkyo Suh

Affiliation Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Dong-Ya Zhu

dyzhu@njmu.edu.cn (DYZ); qigangzhou@gmail.com (QGZ)

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacy College, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Qi-Gang Zhou

dyzhu@njmu.edu.cn (DYZ); qigangzhou@gmail.com (QGZ)

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacy College, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QGZ DYZ. Performed the experiments: LJZ MYL HL QGZ CC ZH XL. Analyzed the data: MYL QGZ HYW XJ HHZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DYZ. Wrote the paper: QGZ DYZ XL ZH HS.