About the Authors

Ying-Li Liang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying-Li Liang, Zhi-Hui Zhang

Affiliation Department of Toxicology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Zhi-Hui Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying-Li Liang, Zhi-Hui Zhang

Affiliation Department of Toxicology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Xiao-Jing Liu

Affiliations Department of Toxicology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, First Affiliated Hospital, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Xiao-Qian Liu

Affiliation Department of Toxicology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Li Tao

Affiliation First Affiliated Hospital, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Ye-Fa Zhang

Affiliation Department of Toxicology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Hua Wang

Affiliation Department of Toxicology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Cheng Zhang

Affiliation Department of Toxicology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Xi Chen

xudex@126.com (DXX); chenxi402@yahoo.com.cn (XC)

Affiliation First Affiliated Hospital, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

De-Xiang Xu

xudex@126.com (DXX); chenxi402@yahoo.com.cn (XC)

Affiliation Department of Toxicology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DXX YLL ZHZ XC. Performed the experiments: YLL ZHZ XJL XQL LT YFZ. Analyzed the data: HW CZ. Wrote the paper: DXX YLL.