About the Authors

Mao Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Mao Yang, Zhenkun Fu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Zhenkun Fu

Contributed equally to this work with: Mao Yang, Zhenkun Fu

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Qingjiang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin, China

Yu Xin

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Yanjun Chen

hmuchenyj@126.com (YC); hmutianye@126.com (YT)

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Ye Tian

hmuchenyj@126.com (YC); hmutianye@126.com (YT)

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University & Department of Pathophysiology, Harbin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YT YC. Performed the experiments: MY ZF YX. Analyzed the data: MY ZF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QZ YX. Wrote the paper: MY ZF.