About the Authors

Zhizhong Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhizhong Zhang, Gelin Xu, Dezhi Liu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Jiangsu Province, China

Gelin Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhizhong Zhang, Gelin Xu, Dezhi Liu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Jiangsu Province, China

Dezhi Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhizhong Zhang, Gelin Xu, Dezhi Liu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Jiangsu Province, China

Xinying Fan

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Jiangsu Province, China

Wusheng Zhu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Jiangsu Province, China

Xinfeng Liu

xfliu2@yahoo.com.cn

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Jiangsu Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZZ XL. Performed the experiments: ZZ GX XL. Analyzed the data: ZZ GX DL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XF WZ. Wrote the paper: ZZ.