About the Authors

Yunhui Du

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China, Department of Emergency Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, United States of America

Rui Li

Affiliation Department of Physiology, National Key Discipline and Key Laboratory of Cytophysiology of Shanxi Province, Shanxi Medical University, Shanxi, 030001, China

Wayne Bigond Lau

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, United States of America

Jianli Zhao

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, United States of America

Bernard Lopez

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, United States of America

Theodore A. Christopher

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, United States of America

Xin-Liang Ma

xin.ma@jefferson.edu (XM); Yajing.Wang@jefferson.edu (YW)

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China, Department of Emergency Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, United States of America

Yajing Wang

xin.ma@jefferson.edu (XM); Yajing.Wang@jefferson.edu (YW)

Affiliations Department of Physiology, National Key Discipline and Key Laboratory of Cytophysiology of Shanxi Province, Shanxi Medical University, Shanxi, 030001, China, Department of Emergency Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW XM. Performed the experiments: YD RL. Analyzed the data: YD JZ WL. Wrote the paper: WL BL TC.