About the Authors

Dan Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Huang, Yan Wang, Lin Wang

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Yan Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Huang, Yan Wang, Lin Wang

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Lin Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Huang, Yan Wang, Lin Wang

Affiliation Central Laboratory, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Fengxiao Zhang

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Shan Deng

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Rui Wang

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Yun Zhang

huangkai1@mail.hust.edu.cn (KH); zhangyun@sdu.edu.cn (YZ)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Function Research, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, China

Kai Huang

huangkai1@mail.hust.edu.cn (KH); zhangyun@sdu.edu.cn (YZ)

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Function Research, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KH. Performed the experiments: DH YW LW FZ SD RW. Analyzed the data: KH YZ DH. Wrote the paper: KH DH.