About the Authors

Huijuan Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Huijuan Cao, Yujie Mu

Affiliation Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Yujie Mu

Contributed equally to this work with: Huijuan Cao, Yujie Mu

Affiliation Beijing Aerospace General Hospital, Beijing, China

Xun Li

Affiliation Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Yuyi Wang

Affiliation Chongqing Traditional Chinese Hospital, Chongqing, China

Shiuan Chen

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Jian-ping Liu

Liujp@bucm.edu.cn; jianping_l@hotmail.com

Affiliation 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. Performed the experiments: HC YM XL YW. Analyzed the data: HC YM YW. Wrote the paper: HC YM XL SC JPL.