About the Authors

Liqiang Song

Contributed equally to this work with: Liqiang Song, Dapeng Liu

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Dapeng Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Liqiang Song, Dapeng Liu

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Changgui Wu

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Shouzhen Wu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Junlan Yang

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Fangping Ren

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Yan Li

liyanshaanxi@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LS DL YL. Performed the experiments: LS DL CW SW JY FR YL. Analyzed the data: LS CW FR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SW YL. Wrote the manuscript: LS DL.