About the Authors

Bo Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Bo Ma, Jiannan Liu

Affiliation School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Jiannan Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Bo Ma, Jiannan Liu

Affiliation Department of Respiration, Jiangsu Geriatric Hospital, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Qi Zhang

nancyzhang03@hotmail.com (QZ); yinghanjie134@163.com (HY)

Affiliation School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Hanjie Ying

nancyzhang03@hotmail.com (QZ); yinghanjie134@163.com (HY)

Affiliation School of Life Science and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Jiye A

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Jianguo Sun

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Di Wu

Affiliations Laboratory for Systems Biology, Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Kinetic Modeling and Simulation (KMAS) Core, Institute of Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yonglu Wang

Affiliation School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Jing Li

Affiliation School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Yinhui Liu

Affiliation School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QZ HJY. Performed the experiments: BM JNL JGS YLW JL YHL. Analyzed the data: JYA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QZ HJY. Wrote the paper: BM JYA DW.