About the Authors

Wei Deng

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Deng, Xinan Wang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wuhan University, Renmin Hospital, Wuhan, China

Xinan Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Deng, Xinan Wang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wuhan University, Renmin Hospital, Wuhan, China

Jinfeng Xiao

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wuhan University, Renmin Hospital, Wuhan, China

Kuoju Chen

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wuhan University, Renmin Hospital, Wuhan, China

Heng Zhou

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wuhan University, Renmin Hospital, Wuhan, China

Difei Shen

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wuhan University, Renmin Hospital, Wuhan, China

Hongliang Li

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wuhan University, Renmin Hospital, Wuhan, China

Qizhu Tang

qztang@whu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wuhan University, Renmin Hospital, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QT HL. Performed the experiments: WD XW JX HZ DS HL QT. Analyzed the data: WD XW JX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KC. Wrote the paper: WD.