About the Authors

Yanxia Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanxia Liu, Xiaoxiang Tian

Affiliations Graduate School of Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China, Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region, Shenyang, China

Xiaoxiang Tian

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanxia Liu, Xiaoxiang Tian

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region, Shenyang, China

Yang Li

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region, Shenyang, China

Dan Liu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region, Shenyang, China

Meili Liu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region, Shenyang, China

Xiaolin Zhang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region, Shenyang, China

Quanyu Zhang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region, Shenyang, China

Chenghui Yan

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region, Shenyang, China

Yaling Han

yalinghan@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region, Shenyang, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YLH CHY Y. Liu XXT. Performed the experiments: Y. Liu XXT Y. Li DL MLL. Analyzed the data: Y. Liu XLZ QYZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QYZ. Wrote the paper: Y. Liu XXT CHY.