About the Authors

Sung-Bae Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Sung-Bae Kim, Ok-Hwa Kang

Affiliation Department of Oriental Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Wonkwang University, Wonkwang Oriental Medicines Research Institute, Iksan, Jeonbuk, 570–749, Korea

Ok-Hwa Kang

Contributed equally to this work with: Sung-Bae Kim, Ok-Hwa Kang

Affiliation Department of Oriental Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Wonkwang University, Wonkwang Oriental Medicines Research Institute, Iksan, Jeonbuk, 570–749, Korea

Young-Seob Lee

Affiliation BK21 Plus Team, Professional Graduate School of Oriental Medicine, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Jeonbuk, 570–749, Korea

Sin-Hee Han

Affiliation Department of Herbal Crop Research, National Institute of Horticultural & Herbal Science, RDA, 92 Bisanro, Eumsung, Chungbuk, 369–873, Korea

Young-Sup Ahn

Affiliation Department of Herbal Crop Research, National Institute of Horticultural & Herbal Science, RDA, 92 Bisanro, Eumsung, Chungbuk, 369–873, Korea

Seon-Woo Cha

Affiliation Department of Herbal Crop Research, National Institute of Horticultural & Herbal Science, RDA, 92 Bisanro, Eumsung, Chungbuk, 369–873, Korea

Yun-Soo Seo

Affiliation Department of Oriental Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Wonkwang University, Wonkwang Oriental Medicines Research Institute, Iksan, Jeonbuk, 570–749, Korea

Ryong Kong

Affiliation BK21 Plus Team, Professional Graduate School of Oriental Medicine, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Jeonbuk, 570–749, Korea

Dong-Yeul Kwon

sssimi@wku.ac.kr

Affiliation Department of Oriental Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Wonkwang University, Wonkwang Oriental Medicines Research Institute, Iksan, Jeonbuk, 570–749, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK YS DK. Performed the experiments: SK OK SH DK. Analyzed the data: OK RK YS DK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SC YA YL. Wrote the paper: SK OK DK.