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¹Department of Anesthesiology, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200127, China
²Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China
³Department of Anesthesiology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200127, China
⁴School of Biosciences and Medicine, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, England

Author contributions: T.G., L.D., G.Z., C.W., X.S., and W.R. designed research; T.G., J.Q., X.D., Y.Z., M.W., L.M., Y.J., P.G., and P.L. performed research; T.G., J.Q., and W.R. analyzed data; W.R. wrote the paper.
↵*T.G., L.D., and J.Q. contributed equally to this work.

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 81570493 and 81873728), the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (Grant 18JC1420302), and Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (Grant JZPI201705). C.W. was supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/P004695/1) and National Institute of Aging (1R01AG049321-01A1).
The authors declare no competing interests.
Correspondence should be addressed to Weifang Rong at weifangrong{at}shsmu.edu.cn or Xueyin Shi at shixueyin1128{at}163.com

The National Natural Science Foundation of China
81873728;81570493
The Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality
18JC1420302
Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
JZPI201705
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
BB/P004695/1

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