About the Authors

Yan Yang

yangyan3@mail.sysu.edu.cn (YY); Nih@smh.ca (HN)

Affiliations Canadian Blood Services, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University (Northern Campus), Guangzhou, People's Republic of China, Toronto Platelet Immunobiology Group, Department of Laboratory Medicine, and Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Zhenyin Shi

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University (Northern Campus), Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Adili Reheman

Affiliation Toronto Platelet Immunobiology Group, Department of Laboratory Medicine, and Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Joseph W. Jin

Affiliations Canadian Blood Services, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Toronto Platelet Immunobiology Group, Department of Laboratory Medicine, and Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Conglei Li

Affiliations Toronto Platelet Immunobiology Group, Department of Laboratory Medicine, and Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Yiming Wang

Affiliations Canadian Blood Services, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Toronto Platelet Immunobiology Group, Department of Laboratory Medicine, and Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Marc C. Andrews

Affiliations Toronto Platelet Immunobiology Group, Department of Laboratory Medicine, and Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Pingguo Chen

Affiliations Canadian Blood Services, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Toronto Platelet Immunobiology Group, Department of Laboratory Medicine, and Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Guangheng Zhu

Affiliation Toronto Platelet Immunobiology Group, Department of Laboratory Medicine, and Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Wenhua Ling

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University (Northern Campus), Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Heyu Ni

yangyan3@mail.sysu.edu.cn (YY); Nih@smh.ca (HN)

Affiliations Canadian Blood Services, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Toronto Platelet Immunobiology Group, Department of Laboratory Medicine, and Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YY WL HN. Performed the experiments: YY ZS AR JWJ CL YW MCA PC GZ. Analyzed the data: YY AR WL HN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YY WL HN. Wrote the paper: YY HN.