About the Authors

Zheng Zhang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Second Artillery General Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China

Liping Ding

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Second Artillery General Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China

Zhitao Jin

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Second Artillery General Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China

Guojie Gao

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Second Artillery General Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China

Huijun Li

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Second Artillery General Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China

Lijuan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Second Artillery General Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China

Lina Zhang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Second Artillery General Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China

Xin Lu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Second Artillery General Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China

Lihua Hu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Second Artillery General Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China

Bingwei Lu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Second Artillery General Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China

Xiongjun Yu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Second Artillery General Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China

Taohong Hu

Hutaohong2010@163.com

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Second Artillery General Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TH. Performed the experiments: ZZ. Analyzed the data: LD GG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZJ HL LH. Wrote the paper: ZZ. Cell culture: Lina Zhang Lijuan Zhang. Animal model: XL BL XY.