About the Authors

Xi Chu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xi Chu, Yusong Guo

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China

Yusong Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Xi Chu, Yusong Guo

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Trauma Dept. 2, The Third Hospital of Shijiazhuang, Shijiazhuang, China

Bingyuan Xu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Hebei University of Chinese Medicine, Shijiazhuang, China

Wenya Li

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Hebei University of Chinese Medicine, Shijiazhuang, China

Yue Lin

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Hebei University of Chinese Medicine, Shijiazhuang, China

Xiaorun Sun

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Hebei University of Chinese Medicine, Shijiazhuang, China

Chunhua Ding

xuan_zhangt@hotmail.com (XZ); dingmd@gmail.com (CD)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Arrhythmia Center, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Xuan Zhang

xuan_zhangt@hotmail.com (XZ); dingmd@gmail.com (CD)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Hebei University of Chinese Medicine, Shijiazhuang, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XZ CD. Performed the experiments: XC YG BX XZ. Analyzed the data: YL XS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WL. Wrote the paper: XZ CD.