About the Authors

Yi-Fang Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Fang Li, Rong-Rong He

Affiliation Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Rong-Rong He

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Fang Li, Rong-Rong He

Affiliations Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, BRAND'S Foundation Health Science Research Centre, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Bun Tsoi

Affiliation Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Xiao-Di Li

Affiliation Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Wei-Xi Li

Affiliation Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Keiichi Abe

Affiliation BRAND'S Foundation Health Science Research Centre, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Hiroshi Kurihara

Hiroshi_Kurihara@163.com

Affiliations Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, BRAND'S Foundation Health Science Research Centre, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HK RRH YFL. Performed the experiments: YFL BT XDL WXL. Analyzed the data: YFL RRH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HK KA. Wrote the paper: YFL RRH BT HK.