ZHOU Xiang1, Masami Shimizu2, Tetsuo Konno2, Hidekazu Ino2, Noboru Fujino2, Katsuharu Uchiyama2, Tomohito Mabuchi2, Tomoya Kaneda2, Takashi Fujita2, Ei-ichi Masuda2, Hiromasa Kato2, Akira Funada2, Hiroshi Mabuchi2 1Department of Pathophysiology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China; 2Division of Cardiology, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-8640, Japan