About the Authors

Lin Ling

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Ling, Yu Shen, Kun Wang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, School of Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Yu Shen

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Ling, Yu Shen, Kun Wang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, School of Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Kun Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Ling, Yu Shen, Kun Wang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, School of Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Chunying Jiang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, School of Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Chunmei Fang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, School of Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Albert Ferro

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Cardiovascular Division, School of Medicine, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Lina Kang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, School of Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Biao Xu

xubiao@medmail.com.cn

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, School of Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LL YS KW BX. Performed the experiments: LL YS KW CJ CF. Analyzed the data: LL AF LK BX. Wrote the paper: LL YS AF BX.