About the Authors

Lei Cao

Affiliation Division of Experimental Vascular Research, Institute of Clinical Science in Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Yaping Zhang

Affiliation Division of Experimental Vascular Research, Institute of Clinical Science in Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Yong-Xiao Cao

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Xi'an Jiaotong University College of Medicine, Xi'an, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Lars Edvinsson

Affiliation Division of Experimental Vascular Research, Institute of Clinical Science in Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Cang-Bao Xu

Cang-Bao.Xu@med.lu.se

Affiliation Division of Experimental Vascular Research, Institute of Clinical Science in Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CBX YXC LE. Performed the experiments: LC. Analyzed the data: LC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CBX LE YXC. Wrote the paper: LC YZ YXC LE CBX.