1. Department of Cardiology at the First Hospital of China Medical University, and Department of Cardiology at the People's Hospital of Liaoning Province, Shenyang 110016, China
2. The Chinese-American Research Institute for Diabetic Complications, the Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325035, China
3. Kosair Children Hospital Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics, University of Louisville, Louisville 40202, KY, U.S.A.
4. The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun 130021, China
5. Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Louisville, Louisville 40202, KY, U.S.A.
6. Department of Physiology, the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City 73104, OK, U.S.A.