About the Authors

Young-Beob Yu

Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Brain Disease Research Center, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon, Korea, Department of Medicinal Plant Resources, Nambu University, Gwangju, Korea

Laura Dosanjh

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Lixing Lao

Affiliation Center for Integrative Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ming Tan

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Bum Sang Shim

Affiliation College of Oriental Medicine, Kyunghee University, Seoul, Korea

Yuan Luo

yluo@rx.umaryland.edu

Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Center for Integrative Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YBY YL. Performed the experiments: YBY. Analyzed the data: LD MT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LL BSS. Wrote the paper: LD YL.