About the Authors

Jie Deng

Contributed equally to this work with: Jie Deng, Yaling Han

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Institute of Cardiovascular Research of People’s Liberation Army, Shenyang Northern Hospital, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Yaling Han

Contributed equally to this work with: Jie Deng, Yaling Han

hanyaling53@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Institute of Cardiovascular Research of People’s Liberation Army, Shenyang Northern Hospital, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Mingyu Sun

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Institute of Cardiovascular Research of People’s Liberation Army, Shenyang Northern Hospital, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Jie Tao

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Institute of Cardiovascular Research of People’s Liberation Army, Shenyang Northern Hospital, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Chenghui Yan

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Institute of Cardiovascular Research of People’s Liberation Army, Shenyang Northern Hospital, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Jian Kang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Institute of Cardiovascular Research of People’s Liberation Army, Shenyang Northern Hospital, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Shaohua Li

Affiliation Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School-UMDNJ, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YH JD. Performed the experiments: JD MS JT CY. Analyzed the data: JK SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JK. Wrote the paper: JD YH.