About the Authors

Rong-Rong He

Contributed equally to this work with: Rong-Rong He, Yan Li

Affiliation Pharmacy College, Jinan University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Yan Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Rong-Rong He, Yan Li

Affiliation Division of Histology and Embryology, Key Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine of the Ministry of Education, Medical College, Jinan University, People’s Republic of China

Xiao-Di Li

Affiliation Pharmacy College, Jinan University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Ruo-Nan Yi

Affiliation Pharmacy College, Jinan University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Xiao-Yu Wang

Affiliation Division of Histology and Embryology, Key Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine of the Ministry of Education, Medical College, Jinan University, People’s Republic of China

Bun Tsoi

Affiliation Pharmacy College, Jinan University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Kenneth Ka Ho Lee

Affiliation Stem Cell and Regeneration Thematic Research Programme, School of Biomedical Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China

Keiichi Abe

Affiliation BRAND’s Health Science Centre, Scientific Research Division, Singapore, Singapore

Xuesong Yang

yang_xuesong@126.com (XY); Hiroshi_Kurihara@163.com (HK)

Affiliation Division of Histology and Embryology, Key Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine of the Ministry of Education, Medical College, Jinan University, People’s Republic of China

Hiroshi Kurihara

yang_xuesong@126.com (XY); Hiroshi_Kurihara@163.com (HK)

Affiliation Pharmacy College, Jinan University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RRH XSY HK. Performed the experiments: YL XDL RNY XYW. Analyzed the data: XDL RNY XYW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KA HK. Wrote the paper: RRH BT KKHL.