Acknowledgments This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30600661, 30872708, 30801174, 30871191 and 30900622), the Scientific Research Foundation of the Health Bureau of Hunan Province (B2007058), the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (05C0163) and the Postdoctorate Scientific Research Special-purpose Project of Hunan Province (2008RS4012).
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