About the Authors

Zhao Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhao Gao, Yu Han

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Daping Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P.R. China, Chongqing Institute of Cardiology, Chongqing Key Laboratory for Hypertension Research, Chongqing, P.R. China

Yu Han

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhao Gao, Yu Han

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Daping Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P.R. China, Chongqing Institute of Cardiology, Chongqing Key Laboratory for Hypertension Research, Chongqing, P.R. China

Yunhui Hu

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Daping Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P.R. China, Chongqing Institute of Cardiology, Chongqing Key Laboratory for Hypertension Research, Chongqing, P.R. China

Xiaoyan Wu

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Daping Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P.R. China, Chongqing Institute of Cardiology, Chongqing Key Laboratory for Hypertension Research, Chongqing, P.R. China

Yongbin Wang

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Daping Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P.R. China, Chongqing Institute of Cardiology, Chongqing Key Laboratory for Hypertension Research, Chongqing, P.R. China

Xiaoqun Zhang

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Daping Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P.R. China, Chongqing Institute of Cardiology, Chongqing Key Laboratory for Hypertension Research, Chongqing, P.R. China

Jinjuan Fu

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Daping Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P.R. China, Chongqing Institute of Cardiology, Chongqing Key Laboratory for Hypertension Research, Chongqing, P.R. China

Xue Zou

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Daping Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P.R. China, Chongqing Institute of Cardiology, Chongqing Key Laboratory for Hypertension Research, Chongqing, P.R. China

Jun Zhang

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Daping Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P.R. China, Chongqing Institute of Cardiology, Chongqing Key Laboratory for Hypertension Research, Chongqing, P.R. China

Xiongwen Chen

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Daping Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P.R. China, Chongqing Institute of Cardiology, Chongqing Key Laboratory for Hypertension Research, Chongqing, P.R. China

Pedro A. Jose

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Renal Disease and Hypertension, The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Physiology, The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Washington, DC, United States of America

Xi Lu

chunyuzeng01@163.com (CZ); xixi0332@126.com (XL)

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Daping Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P.R. China, Chongqing Institute of Cardiology, Chongqing Key Laboratory for Hypertension Research, Chongqing, P.R. China

Chunyu Zeng

chunyuzeng01@163.com (CZ); xixi0332@126.com (XL)

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Daping Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P.R. China, Chongqing Institute of Cardiology, Chongqing Key Laboratory for Hypertension Research, Chongqing, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZG Y. Han XL CZ. Performed the experiments: ZG Y. Han Y. Hu XW YW JF X. Zou JZ. Analyzed the data: ZG Y. Han XL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: X. Zhang. Wrote the paper: ZG Y. Han. Edited and revised the article: XC PAJ XL CZ.