About the Authors

Chao Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chao Zhang, Jiao Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Encephalopathy, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Jiao Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Chao Zhang, Jiao Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Experimental Research Center, Chinese Academy of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Linjing Song

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Encephalopathy, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Juwei Dong

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Encephalopathy, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Qianqian Hu

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular, Gansu University of Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Dayong Ma

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

a3153@bucm.edu.cn (DM); lijing11442@bjzhongyi.com (JL)

‡ DM and JL also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Encephalopathy, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Jing Li

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

a3153@bucm.edu.cn (DM); lijing11442@bjzhongyi.com (JL)

‡ DM and JL also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Endocrine, Beijing Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.