About the Authors

Fengyan Jin

Contributed equally to this work with: Fengyan Jin, Huifan Ji, Chunshu Jia

Affiliations The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China, Jilin Province Tumor Hospital, Changchun, China, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

Huifan Ji

Contributed equally to this work with: Fengyan Jin, Huifan Ji, Chunshu Jia

Affiliation The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China

Chunshu Jia

Contributed equally to this work with: Fengyan Jin, Huifan Ji, Chunshu Jia

Affiliation The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China

Ulf Brockmeier

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Dirk M. Hermann

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

Eric Metzen

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Yingqiao Zhu

chibr@jlu.edu.cn (BC); zhuyingqiaoZYQ@163.com (YZ)

Affiliation The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China

Baorong Chi

chibr@jlu.edu.cn (BC); zhuyingqiaoZYQ@163.com (YZ)

Affiliation The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FJ YZ BC. Performed the experiments: FJ HJ CJ UB. Analyzed the data: FJ HJ CJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DMH EM. Wrote the paper: FJ HJ CJ UB YZ BC.