About the Authors

Huawei Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Huawei Sun, Tiandong Leng

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Neuroscience Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Tiandong Leng

Contributed equally to this work with: Huawei Sun, Tiandong Leng

Affiliation Neuroscience Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Zhao Zeng

Affiliation Neuroscience Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Xiuren Gao

xiurengao@163.com (XG); ZXiong@msm.edu (ZGX)

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Koichi Inoue

Affiliation Neuroscience Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Zhi-Gang Xiong

xiurengao@163.com (XG); ZXiong@msm.edu (ZGX)

Affiliation Neuroscience Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KI ZGX. Performed the experiments: HS TL ZZ. Analyzed the data: HS. Wrote the manuscript: HS XG KI ZGX.