About the Authors

Supawadee Parhira

Contributed equally to this work with: Supawadee Parhira, Zi-Feng Yang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Macau Institute for Applied Research in Medicine and Health, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macau

Zi-Feng Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Supawadee Parhira, Zi-Feng Yang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Guo-Yuan Zhu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Macau Institute for Applied Research in Medicine and Health, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macau

Qiao-Lian Chen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Bei-Xian Zhou

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Yu-Tao Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Liang Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Macau Institute for Applied Research in Medicine and Health, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macau

Li-Ping Bai

lpbai@must.edu.mo (LPB); zhjiang@must.edu.mo (ZHJ)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Macau Institute for Applied Research in Medicine and Health, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macau

Zhi-Hong Jiang

lpbai@must.edu.mo (LPB); zhjiang@must.edu.mo (ZHJ)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Macau Institute for Applied Research in Medicine and Health, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macau

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZHJ LPB LL. Performed the experiments: SP ZFY GYZ QLC BXZ YTW. Analyzed the data: SP LPB ZFY. Wrote the paper: SP LPB ZHJ YTW.