About the Authors

Le-Xun Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Le-Xun Wang, Xiao Yang

Affiliations Second Department of Cardiac Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Assisted Circulatory Laboratory of Health Ministry, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Xiao Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Le-Xun Wang, Xiao Yang

Affiliations Second Department of Cardiac Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Assisted Circulatory Laboratory of Health Ministry, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Yuan Yue

Affiliations Second Department of Cardiac Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Assisted Circulatory Laboratory of Health Ministry, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Tian Fan

Affiliations Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Jian Hou

Affiliations Second Department of Cardiac Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Assisted Circulatory Laboratory of Health Ministry, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Guang-Xian Chen

Affiliations Second Department of Cardiac Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Assisted Circulatory Laboratory of Health Ministry, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Meng-Ya Liang

Affiliations Second Department of Cardiac Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Assisted Circulatory Laboratory of Health Ministry, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Zhong-Kai Wu

wuzhk@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Affiliations Second Department of Cardiac Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Assisted Circulatory Laboratory of Health Ministry, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ZKW LXW XY. Data curation: YY. Formal analysis: LXW TF. Funding acquisition: ZKW LXW. Investigation: LXW YY. Methodology: LXW XY YY TF. Project administration: ZKW. Resources: MYL GXC. Software: JH MYL. Supervision: ZKW. Validation: YY TF. Visualization: LXW. Writing – original draft: LXW XY. Writing – review & editing: LXW ZKW.