About the Authors

Dong-Mei Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Dong-Mei Zhang, Yong Li, Wai San Cheang

Affiliations Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Pharmacodynamic Constituents of Traditional Chinese Medicine and New Drugs Research, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Yong Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Dong-Mei Zhang, Yong Li, Wai San Cheang

Affiliations Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Pharmacodynamic Constituents of Traditional Chinese Medicine and New Drugs Research, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Wai San Cheang

Contributed equally to this work with: Dong-Mei Zhang, Yong Li, Wai San Cheang

Affiliation Institute of Vascular Medicine, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences and School of Biomedical Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Chi Wai Lau

Affiliation Institute of Vascular Medicine, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences and School of Biomedical Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Shun-Ming Lin

Affiliations Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Pharmacodynamic Constituents of Traditional Chinese Medicine and New Drugs Research, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Qian-Lan Zhang

Affiliations Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Pharmacodynamic Constituents of Traditional Chinese Medicine and New Drugs Research, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Nan Yao

Affiliations Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Pharmacodynamic Constituents of Traditional Chinese Medicine and New Drugs Research, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Ying Wang

Affiliations Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Pharmacodynamic Constituents of Traditional Chinese Medicine and New Drugs Research, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Xin Wu

Affiliations Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Pharmacodynamic Constituents of Traditional Chinese Medicine and New Drugs Research, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Yu Huang

chywc@yahoo.com.cn (WCY); yu-huang@cuhk.edu.hk (YH)

Affiliation Institute of Vascular Medicine, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences and School of Biomedical Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Wen-Cai Ye

chywc@yahoo.com.cn (WCY); yu-huang@cuhk.edu.hk (YH)

Affiliations Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Pharmacodynamic Constituents of Traditional Chinese Medicine and New Drugs Research, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DMZ YL WSC YH WCY. Performed the experiments: DMZ YL WSC CWL SML QLZ NY. Analyzed the data: DMZ YL WSC CWL SML YH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YW XW. Wrote the paper: DMZ YL WSC YH.