About the Authors
- Yun-Zi Dong
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Contributed equally to this work with: Yun-Zi Dong, Li-Juan Zhang
Affiliation Pharmanex Beijing Clinical Pharmacology Center, Beijing, China
- Li-Juan Zhang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Yun-Zi Dong, Li-Juan Zhang
Affiliation Pharmanex Beijing Clinical Pharmacology Center, Beijing, China
- Zi-Mei Wu
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Affiliation Pharmanex Beijing Clinical Pharmacology Center, Beijing, China
- Ling Gao
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Affiliation Pharmanex Beijing Clinical Pharmacology Center, Beijing, China
- Yi-Sang Yao
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Affiliation Pharmanex Beijing Clinical Pharmacology Center, Beijing, China
- Ning-Zhi Tan
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Affiliation Pharmanex Beijing Clinical Pharmacology Center, Beijing, China
- Jian-Yong Wu
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Affiliations Department of Applied Biology and Chemistry Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Shenzhen TCM Pharmacy and Molecular Pharmacology Kay Laboratory, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Luqun Ni
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Affiliation Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America
- Jia-Shi Zhu
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* E-mail: zhujosh@gmail.com
Affiliations Department of Applied Biology and Chemistry Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Shenzhen TCM Pharmacy and Molecular Pharmacology Kay Laboratory, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, NS Center for Anti-Aging Research, Provo, UT, United States of America
Competing Interests
The Pharmanex Cordyceps sinensis research fund was provided as a special supply for Cordyceps sinensis-related research by Nu Skin Enterprises USA. The Pharmanex Beijing Clinical Pharmacology Center was one of the Nu Skin Research Labs and was closed in Dec. 2013. The co-authors [YZD, LJZ, ZMW, LG, YSY, NZT] were staff scientists of Nu Skin Research Labs prior to its closure. Co-author JSZ was an employee of Nu Skin USA and left the company on Oct. 1, 2013 (currently an Adjunct Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.). Co-authors LJZ and ZMW are currently employed by other institutes, and their jobs are completely unrelated to C. sinensis research. The remaining co-authors [YZD, LG, YSY, NZT] are currently unemployed, and JSZ remains in an adjunct position at the university. The majority of the work related to this paper was performed before the lab closure. The authors continued working on the project (e.g., data analyses, manuscript writing/revising, submitting/resubmitting) without salary support from Nu Skin after leaving the company in Oct. or Dec. 2013. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: LJZ JSZ. Performed the experiments: YZD LJZ. Analyzed the data: YZD LG YSY NZT LN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZMW. Wrote the paper: JSZ JYW. Formulated analytic algorithms: LN.