About the Authors

Hui Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Li, Yiyang Wang

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Guangzhou Overseas Chinese Hospital, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Yiyang Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Li, Yiyang Wang

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Key Laboratory of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the People’s Republic of China, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Haoqing Zhang

Affiliation Center of Prenatal Diagnosis, Chenzhou No. 1 People’s Hospital, Chenzhou, Hunan, China

Baoyin Jia

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Key Laboratory of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the People’s Republic of China, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Daan Wang

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Key Laboratory of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the People’s Republic of China, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Hongmei Li

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Key Laboratory of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the People’s Republic of China, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Daxiang Lu

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Key Laboratory of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the People’s Republic of China, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Renbin Qi

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Key Laboratory of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the People’s Republic of China, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Yuxia Yan

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Huadong Wang

owanghd@jnu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Key Laboratory of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the People’s Republic of China, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HW. Performed the experiments: HL YW HZ BJ DW HL RQ YY. Analyzed the data: HL YW DL HW. Wrote the paper: HL YW HW.