Ni, Cheng
Li, Cheng
Dong, Yuanlin
Guo, Xiangyang
Zhang, Yiying
Xie, Zhongcong
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (R01 GM088801, R01 AG041274)
Article History
Received: 13 February 2016
Accepted: 10 May 2016
First Online: 19 May 2016
Compliance with Ethical Standard
: The animal protocol was approved by the Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts) Standing Committee on the Use of Animals in Research and Teaching. All experiments followed the National Institutes of Health guidelines, and efforts were made to minimize the number of animals used.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: C.N., C.L., and Y.D. performed experiments, generated and analyzed the data, contributed to project design and manuscript writing. Y.Z. and X.G. contributed to the design of experiments and data analysis. Z.X. designed and directed the project, participated in experiments, and wrote the manuscript. All authors read and approved the manuscript.