About the Authors

Xiaojun Li

Affiliations Teaching Experimental Center, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China, The MOE Key Laboratory for Standardization of Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

Jiaye Jiang

Affiliation Teaching Experimental Center, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

Songshan Shi

Affiliations The MOE Key Laboratory for Standardization of Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China, Shanghai R&D Center for Standardization of Chinese Medicines, Shanghai, China

S. W. Annie Bligh

Affiliation Department of Complementary Medicine, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Westminster, Westminster, United Kingdom

Yuan Li

Affiliation Teaching Experimental Center, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yongbo Jiang

Affiliation Teaching Experimental Center, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

Dan Huang

Affiliation Teaching Experimental Center, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yan Ke

keyantcm@163.com (YK); shunchunwang@126.com (SCW)

Affiliation Teaching Experimental Center, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

Shunchun Wang

keyantcm@163.com (YK); shunchunwang@126.com (SCW)

Affiliations The MOE Key Laboratory for Standardization of Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China, Shanghai R&D Center for Standardization of Chinese Medicines, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XJL YK SCW. Performed the experiments: XJL. Analyzed the data: XJL SWAB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SSS JYJ YL YBJ DH. Wrote the paper: XJL SWAB.