About the Authors

Shengnan Wei

Contributed equally to this work with: Shengnan Wei, Ming Zhang

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Nursing, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

Ming Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shengnan Wei, Ming Zhang

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Nursing, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China, Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, DREAM, Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Yang Yu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Nursing, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

Xiaoxin Lan

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Nursing, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

Fan Yao

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Nursing, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

Xin Yan

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Nursing, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

Li Chen

chen_lab@163.com

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Nursing, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

Grant M. Hatch

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, DREAM, Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SW MZ. Performed the experiments: YY XL. Analyzed the data: FY XY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LC. Wrote the paper: GMH.