About the Authors

Yuting Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuting Zhou, Qiongfeng Liao

Affiliation School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Qiongfeng Liao

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuting Zhou, Qiongfeng Liao

Affiliation School of Chinese Materia Medica, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Manna Lin

Affiliations School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China, School of Chinese Materia Medica, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Xuejiao Deng

Affiliation School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Peiting Zhang

Affiliation School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Meicun Yao

Affiliation School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Lei Zhang

Affiliation School of Chinese Materia Medica, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Zhiyong Xie

xiezy2074@yahoo.com

Affiliation School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen 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: YZ QL ZX. Performed the experiments: YZ ML XD PZ. Analyzed the data: YZ ML MY LZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QL ZX. Wrote the paper: YZ ML ZX.