About the Authors

Hua Sui

Contributed equally to this work with: Hua Sui, Nijing Sun

Affiliation Institute of Basic Research of Integrative Medicine, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, P.R. China

Nijing Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Hua Sui, Nijing Sun

Affiliation The Affiliated Hospital of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P.R. China

Libin Zhan

zlbnj@njucm.edu.cn (LZ); dllxg100@126.com (XL)

Affiliation College of Basic Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P.R. China

Xiaoguang Lu

zlbnj@njucm.edu.cn (LZ); dllxg100@126.com (XL)

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Zhongshan Hospital, Dalian University, Dalian, Liaoning, P.R. China

Tuo Chen

Affiliation Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, P.R. China

Xinyong Mao

Affiliation Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LBZ XGL. Performed the experiments: NJS HS TC XYM. Analyzed the data: NJS HS TC XYM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NJS HS. Wrote the paper: NJS HS.