About the Authors

Paul Bansal

Affiliations Departments of Physiology and Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka-Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Shuanglian Wang

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Shenghao Liu

Affiliations Departments of Physiology and Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka-Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Yun-Yan Xiang

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Wei-Yang Lu

wlu53@uwo.ca (W-YL); qinghua.wang@utoronto.ca (QW)

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Qinghua Wang

wlu53@uwo.ca (W-YL); qinghua.wang@utoronto.ca (QW)

Affiliations Departments of Physiology and Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka-Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PB WL QW. Performed the experiments: PB YX SW SL. Analyzed the data: PB WL QW SW SL. Wrote the paper: PB WL QW.