About the Authors

Sujuan Yan

Current address: Department of Cardiology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Yamei Chen

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Min Dong

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Weizhong Song

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Scott M. Belcher

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Hong-Sheng Wang

wanghs@uc.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: H-SW SMB. Performed the experiments: SY YC MD WS. Analyzed the data: SY YC MD WS H-SW. Wrote the paper: H-SW SMB.