About the Authors

Guo-Xin Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Guo-Xin Hu, Han Lin

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China

Han Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Guo-Xin Hu, Han Lin

Affiliation The 2nd Affiliated Hospital, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China

Qing-Quan Lian

Affiliation The 2nd Affiliated Hospital, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China

Shu-Hua Zhou

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China

Jingjing Guo

Affiliation The 2nd Affiliated Hospital, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China

Hong-Yu Zhou

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China

Yanhui Chu

Affiliation Heilongjiang Key Laboratory of Anti-fibrosis Biotherapy, Mudanjiang Medical University, Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang, PR China

Ren-Shan Ge

r_ge@yahoo.com

Affiliations The 2nd Affiliated Hospital, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China, Population Council, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RSG YC QQL. Performed the experiments: HYZ HGX HL SHZ JG. Analyzed the data: RSG HXG. Wrote the paper: GXH RSG.