About the Authors

Jing Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Zhang, Zhi Hai Huang

Affiliation Lab of Chinese Materia Medica Preparation, The Second Clinical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Zhi Hai Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Zhang, Zhi Hai Huang

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Xiao Hui Qiu

Affiliation Lab of Chinese Materia Medica Preparation, The Second Clinical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Yi Ming Yang

Affiliation Lab of Chinese Materia Medica Preparation, The Second Clinical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Da Yuan Zhu

Affiliation Lab of Chinese Materia Medica Preparation, The Second Clinical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Wen Xu

freexuwen@163.com

Affiliation Lab of Chinese Materia Medica Preparation, The Second Clinical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WX JZ YMY DYZ. Performed the experiments: JZ ZHH. Analyzed the data: JZ WX ZHH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XHQ ZHH. Wrote the paper: WX.