About the Authors

Xu-Wen Zhai

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Li Zhang

Affiliation Shanxi Provincial Childrens Hospital, Taiyuan, China

Yun-Fei Guo

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Ying Yang

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Dong-Ming Wang

Affiliation The Second Hospital, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Yan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Pan Li

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Yi-Fan Niu

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Qi-Long Feng

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Bo-Wei Wu

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Ji-Min Cao

liuqh20041206@163.com (QL); caojimin@126.com (JC)

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Qing-Hua Liu

liuqh20041206@163.com (QL); caojimin@126.com (JC)

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BW JC QL. Data curation: XZ LZ. Formal analysis: XZ YY. Funding acquisition: QL JC. Investigation: YG YY YZ PL YN. Methodology: QF. Project administration: XZ QL. Resources: DW XZ. Supervision: QL BW. Validation: QL. Visualization: XZ QL JC. Writing – original draft: QL XZ. Writing – review & editing: JC BW.