About the Authors

Lu Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lu Zhang, Yu Fang

Affiliations Key-Disciplines Laboratory Clinical-Medicine of Henan, Zhengzhou, Henan, China, Department of Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Yu Fang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lu Zhang, Yu Fang

Affiliations Key-Disciplines Laboratory Clinical-Medicine of Henan, Zhengzhou, Henan, China, Department of Intensive Care Unit, First Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Yajun Lian

Affiliation Department of Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Yuan Chen

Affiliation Department of Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Tianwen Wu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Yake Zheng

Affiliation Department of Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Huili Zong

Affiliation Department of Intensive Care Unit, First Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Limin Sun

Affiliation Department of Intensive Care Unit, First Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Ruifang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Intensive Care Unit, First Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Zhenhua Wang

Affiliation Department of Intensive Care Unit, First Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Yuming Xu

zhangluys@163.com

Affiliations Key-Disciplines Laboratory Clinical-Medicine of Henan, Zhengzhou, Henan, China, Department of Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LZ YF. Performed the experiments: LZ YL YC TW YZ HZ. Analyzed the data: LS RZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZW. Wrote the paper: LZ YX.