About the Authors

Yue-Hua Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yue-Hua Jiang, Ping Jiang

Affiliation Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, Shandong, P.R. China

Ping Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yue-Hua Jiang, Ping Jiang

Affiliation Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, Shandong, P.R. China

Jin-long Yang

Affiliation Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, Shandong, P.R. China

Du-Fang Ma

Affiliation Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, Shandong, P.R. China

Hai-Qing Lin

Affiliation Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, Shandong, P.R. China

Wen-ge Su

Affiliation Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, Shandong, P.R. China

Zhen Wang

Affiliation Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, Shandong, P.R. China

Xiao Li

ljy6617@163.com

Affiliation Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, Shandong, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors declare having no conflicts of interest regarding the design or outcomes of this study.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YHJ XL. Performed the experiments: PJ JLY DFM. Analyzed the data: PJ JLY DFM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HQL WGS ZW. Wrote the paper: YHJ PJ.