About the Authors

Jinqiang Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinqiang Zhu, Liyuan Kang

Affiliation Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Chinese Medical Pharmacology, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

Liyuan Kang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinqiang Zhu, Liyuan Kang

klyzm@163.com

Affiliation Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Chinese Medical Pharmacology, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

Qiaofeng Ye

Affiliation Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Chinese Medical Pharmacology, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

Guanwei Fan

Affiliation Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Chinese Medical Pharmacology, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

Yubin Liang

Affiliation Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Chinese Medical Pharmacology, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

Chen Yan

Affiliation Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Chinese Medical Pharmacology, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

John Orgah

Affiliation Research and Development Center of TCM, Tianjin International Joint Academy of Biotechnology and Medicine, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LYK JQZ GWF. Performed the experiments: JQZ QFY YBL. Analyzed the data: JQZ CY QFY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JQZ CY QFY. Wrote the paper: JQZ LYK JO.