About the Authors

Guiqin Xie

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Jiang-Hong Ye

ye@umdnj.edu

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JHY GX. Performed the experiments: GX. Analyzed the data: GX. Wrote the paper: JHY GX.