About the Authors

Man-Li Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Man-Li Liu, Huan Wang

Affiliations Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xijing Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China, Department of Human Anatomy and Histology and Embryology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China

Huan Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Man-Li Liu, Huan Wang

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Tangdu Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China

Zong-Ren Wang

Affiliation Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xijing Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China

Yu-Fen Zhang

Affiliation Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xijing Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China

Yan-Qiu Chen

Affiliation Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xijing Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China

Fang-Hong Zhu

Affiliation Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xijing Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China

Yuan-Qiang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Human Anatomy and Histology and Embryology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China

Jing Ma

jingma@fmmu.edu.cn (JM); lizhenhe@fmmu.edu.cn (ZL)

Affiliation Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xijing Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China

Zhen Li

jingma@fmmu.edu.cn (JM); lizhenhe@fmmu.edu.cn (ZL)

Affiliation Department of Human Anatomy and Histology and Embryology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MLL ZL JM. Performed the experiments: MLL HW YFZ YQC. Analyzed the data: MLL ZL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZL JM YQZ ZRW FHZ. Wrote the paper: MLL ZL.