About the Authors

Ya Xiao

Contributed equally to this work with: Ya Xiao, Yanyan Liu, Shaohui Huang

Affiliations Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510515, China, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510515, China

Yanyan Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ya Xiao, Yanyan Liu, Shaohui Huang

Affiliation Department of Rheumatic diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510405, China

Shaohui Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ya Xiao, Yanyan Liu, Shaohui Huang

Affiliation School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510515, China

Xiaomin Sun

Affiliation School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510515, China

Yang Tang

Affiliations Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510515, China, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510515, China

Jingru Cheng

Affiliations Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510515, China, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510515, China

Tian Wang

Affiliations Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510515, China, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510515, China

Fei Li

Affiliations Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510515, China, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510515, China

Yuxiang Kuang

Affiliation Digestive Department of Guangdong provincial hospital of TCM, Guangzhou, 510120, China

Ren Luo

Affiliations Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510515, China, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510515, China

Xiaoshan Zhao

zhaoxs0609@163.com

Affiliation School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510515, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XSZ. Performed the experiments: XMS YT JRC TW FL YXK. Analyzed the data: YX YYL SHH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YX YYL SHH. Wrote the paper: XY YYL SHH XSZ. Study supervision: XSZ RL.