Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (31471110, 31771291)
Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20170014)
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (2015CB856300)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (DK045416)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (HL058493, HL128349)
Article History
Received: 17 March 2018
Accepted: 27 July 2018
First Online: 14 August 2018
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.