About the Authors

Fangfang Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Fangfang Xu, Qiuxia Yang

xudubfang@163.com (FX); doctliu@263.net (BL)

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Qiuxia Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Fangfang Xu, Qiuxia Yang

Affiliations The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Lilan Wu

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Rui Qi

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Yunshan Wu

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Yucui Li

Affiliation College of Chinese Medicines, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Lipeng Tang

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China

De-an Guo

Affiliations The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 501 Haike Road, Shanghai, China

Bo Liu

xudubfang@163.com (FX); doctliu@263.net (BL)

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BL FX. Data curation: FX QY. Funding acquisition: LT BL. Investigation: FX QY. Methodology: LW LT. Project administration: DG BL. Resources: DG BL. Supervision: DG BL. Validation: RQ YW YL. Writing – original draft: FX BL. Writing – review & editing: FX YW BL.