About the Authors

Yun Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yun Wang, Hong-Jie Yan

Affiliations Department of Cardiac Surgery, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, PR China, The Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Cellular Therapy, The Second Clinical Medical College (Shenzhen People's Hospital), Jinan University, Shenzhen, PR China

Hong-Jie Yan

Contributed equally to this work with: Yun Wang, Hong-Jie Yan

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Cellular Therapy, The Second Clinical Medical College (Shenzhen People's Hospital), Jinan University, Shenzhen, PR China

Shu-Yan Zhou

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Cellular Therapy, The Second Clinical Medical College (Shenzhen People's Hospital), Jinan University, Shenzhen, PR China

Yun-Shuang Wang

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Cellular Therapy, The Second Clinical Medical College (Shenzhen People's Hospital), Jinan University, Shenzhen, PR China

Hui Qi

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Cellular Therapy, The Second Clinical Medical College (Shenzhen People's Hospital), Jinan University, Shenzhen, PR China

Chun-Yan Deng

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Cellular Therapy, The Second Clinical Medical College (Shenzhen People's Hospital), Jinan University, Shenzhen, PR China

Fu-Rong Li

frli62@163.com

Affiliations The Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Cellular Therapy, The Second Clinical Medical College (Shenzhen People's Hospital), Jinan University, Shenzhen, PR China, Shenzhen Institution of Gerontology, Shenzhen, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FRL. Performed the experiments: YW HJY SYZ YSW. Analyzed the data: CYD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HQ. Wrote the paper: FRL YW.