About the Authors

Yuexia Liao

Affiliation Department of Chinese Medicine Integrated with Western Medicine, Yangzhou University School of Medicine, Yangzhou, P.R. China

Weigan Shen

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Yangzhou University School of Medicine, Yangzhou, P.R. China

Guimei Kong

Affiliation Department of Chinese Medicine Integrated with Western Medicine, Yangzhou University School of Medicine, Yangzhou, P.R. China

Houning Lv

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Yangzhou University School of Medicine, Yangzhou, P.R. China

Wenhua Tao

Affiliation Department of Chinese Medicine Integrated with Western Medicine, Yangzhou University School of Medicine, Yangzhou, P.R. China

Ping Bo

yangzboping@163.com

Affiliation Department of Chinese Medicine Integrated with Western Medicine, Yangzhou University School of Medicine, Yangzhou, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL WS PB. Performed the experiments: YL WT HL. Analyzed the data: YL WS GK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WS PB. Wrote the paper: YL WS.