About the Authors

Wei Chen

Affiliation Centre For Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Chi Eung Danforn Lim

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, South Western Sydney Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Hong-Jun Kang

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Jianping Liu

jianping_l@hotmail.com

Affiliations Centre For Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China, NAFKAM, University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WC JL. Performed the experiments: WC CEDL. Analyzed the data: WC H-JK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WC CEDL H-JK. Wrote the paper: WC.