About the Authors

Xiaojun Tao

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, First Affiliated Hospital, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical College, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Material of Tianjin, Tianjin, People's Republic of China

Qiufang Zhang

Affiliation Laboratory of Chinese Herbal Pharmacology, Renmin Hospital of Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, Hubei, China

Kai Ling

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical College, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Material of Tianjin, Tianjin, People's Republic of China

Yicun Chen

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Wenzhi Yang

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical College, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Material of Tianjin, Tianjin, People's Republic of China

Fenfei Gao

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Ganggang Shi

ggshi@stu.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, First Affiliated Hospital, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China, Department of Pharmacology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GS XT. Performed the experiments: XT QZ KL YC WY FG. Analyzed the data: XT GS QZ WY. Wrote the paper: XT GS YC.