About the Authors

Hong-Jhang Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong-Jhang Chen, Yuh-Chiang Shen

Affiliations National Research Institute of Chinese Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Food Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yuh-Chiang Shen

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong-Jhang Chen, Yuh-Chiang Shen

Affiliation National Research Institute of Chinese Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Young-Ji Shiao

Affiliation National Research Institute of Chinese Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Kuo-Tong Liou

Affiliation Department of Chinese Martial Arts and Graduate Institute of Sport Coaching Science, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan

Wei-Hsiang Hsu

Affiliation National Research Institute of Chinese Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Pei-Hsuan Hsieh

Affiliation Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Chi-Ying Lee

Affiliation Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Yet-Ran Chen

yllin5212@gmail.com (YLL); yetran@gate.sinica.edu.tw (YRC)

Affiliation Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Yun-Lian Lin

yllin5212@gmail.com (YLL); yetran@gate.sinica.edu.tw (YRC)

Affiliations National Research Institute of Chinese Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Chinese Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chinese Medicine Resources, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Pharmacy, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YLL HJC. Performed the experiments: HJC PHH YCS WHH. Analyzed the data: HJC PHH CYL YCS YJS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YJS KTL YLL. Wrote the paper: HJC YRC YLL.