About the Authors

Zhiyu Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiyu Wang, Neng Wang

Affiliation School of Chinese Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China

Neng Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiyu Wang, Neng Wang

Affiliation School of Chinese Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China

Shouwei Han

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, The Second Clinical Medical Collage, University of Guangzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Dongmei Wang

Affiliation School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Suilin Mo

Affiliation The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Linzhong Yu

Affiliation School of Chinese Medicine, South Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Hui Huang

Affiliation Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Kamchuen Tsui

Affiliation The Hong Kong Associate of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong, China

Jiangang Shen

Affiliation School of Chinese Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China

Jianping Chen

jpjpchen@yahoo.com

Affiliation School of Chinese Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZYW JPC. Performed the experiments: NW DMW SLM. Analyzed the data: SWH LZY HH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KCT JGS. Wrote the paper: ZYW NW.