About the Authors

Xiaqing Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaqing Li, Julie A. Coffield

xqli2013@126.com

Affiliations Department of Pathophysiology, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Julie A. Coffield

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaqing Li, Julie A. Coffield

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XQL. Performed the experiments: XQL. Analyzed the data: XQL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XQL JAC. Wrote the paper: XQL.