About the Authors

Guo-Yan Yang

Affiliation Centre for Evidence-based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Li-Qiong Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Li-Qiong Wang, Jun Ren

Affiliation Centre for Evidence-based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Jun Ren

Contributed equally to this work with: Li-Qiong Wang, Jun Ren

Affiliation Centre for Evidence-based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Yan Zhang

Affiliation School of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Meng-Ling Li

Affiliation School of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Yu-Ting Zhu

Affiliation School of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Jing Luo

Affiliations School of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China, Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Yan-Jun Cheng

Affiliations School of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China, Guang’anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Wen-Yuan Li

Affiliation Centre for Evidence-based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Peter M. Wayne

Affiliation Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jian-Ping Liu

Liujp@bucm.edu.cn

Affiliations Centre for Evidence-based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JPL GYY. Performed the experiments: GYY LQW JR YZ MLL YTZ JL YJC WYL. Analyzed the data: GYY. Wrote the paper: GYY. Reviewed and revised draft of manuscript: PMW JPL.