About the Authors

Wei Liu

Affiliations Tianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Pharmaceutical Analysis, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China

Huilin Wang

Affiliations Tianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Pharmaceutical Analysis, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China

Bo Zhu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Chengqian Yin

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Shuyang Chen

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jin Li

Affiliations Tianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Pharmaceutical Analysis, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China

Xie-an Yu

Affiliations Tianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Pharmaceutical Analysis, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China

John Teye Azietaku

Affiliations Tianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Pharmaceutical Analysis, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China

Mingrui An

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Xiu-mei Gao

Tcmcyx@126.com (Y.-x.Chang); gaoxiumei@tjutcm.edu.cn (X-m Gao)

Affiliations Tianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Pharmaceutical Analysis, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China

Yan-xu Chang

Tcmcyx@126.com (Y.-x.Chang); gaoxiumei@tjutcm.edu.cn (X-m Gao)

Affiliations Tianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Pharmaceutical Analysis, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: XG YC. Data curation: WL XY. Formal analysis: WL XG YC. Funding acquisition: XG YC. Investigation: WL HW JL BZ CY SC MA. Methodology: WL HW JL YC XY JA. Project administration: XG YC. Supervision: XG YC. Validation: WL HW JL YC. Visualization: WL. Writing – original draft: WL BZ CY SC MA JA. Writing – review & editing: WL YC.