About the Authors

Tongda Xu

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

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

Xin Wu

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

Affiliation Research Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China

Qiuping Chen

Affiliation Research Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China

Shasha Zhu

Affiliation Research Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China

Yang Liu

Affiliation Research Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China

Defeng Pan

Affiliation Research Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China

Xiaohu Chen

ldy@xzmc.edu.cn (DL); chenxiaohu2001@aliyun.com (XC)

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

Dongye Li

ldy@xzmc.edu.cn (DL); chenxiaohu2001@aliyun.com (XC)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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