*Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital, University of South China, Hengyang
†School of Medicine, Changsha Social Work College, Changsha, Hunan
‡Department of Rehabilitation, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, People’s Republic of China
H.Q. and S.C. contributed equally to this study.
This work was supported by the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (grant nos. 2019JJ40267 and 2021JJ70114) and Scientific Research Fund Project of Hunan Provincial Health Commission (grant nos. 20201911, 20201963).
Conceived and designed the experiments: M.X., G.W., and H.Q. Performed the experiments and analyzed the data: H.Q., S.C., Y.C., Y.C., Y.L., S.D., Q.C., and M.X. Wrote the paper: G.W., M.X., and S.C.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Correspondence to: Ming Xie, PhD, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, People’s Republic of China. E-mail: [email protected].