About the Authors

Yafang Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yafang Hu, Haishan Jiang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Haishan Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yafang Hu, Haishan Jiang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Qun Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Zuoshan Xie

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Suyue Pan

pansuyue82@yahoo.com.cn

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YH HSJ QW ZSX SYP. Performed the experiments: YH HSJ QW ZSX. Analyzed the data: YH SYP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HSJ SYP. Wrote the paper: YH SYP.