Cheng Yang, Ying Xiong, Sheng-Sheng Zhang, Fang-Mei An, Jing Sun, Qing-Lin Zhang, Qiang Zhan
Cheng Yang, Fang-Mei An, Jing Sun, Qing-Lin Zhang, Qiang Zhan, Department of Gastroenterology, Wuxi People’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi 214023, Jiangsu Province, China
Ying Xiong, Community Health Service Center of Jinkui Street, Wuxi 214023, Jiangsu Province, China
Sheng-Sheng Zhang, Digestive Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Center, Beijing Chinese Medicine Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100010, China
Author contributions: Yang C made contributions to the study design, data interpretation, and wrote the manuscript; Zhang SS made contributions to the study design; Xiong Y, An FM, Sun J and Zhan Q performed the majority of experiments and data analysis; Zhang QL conducted the majority of quality control for the herbs of the formula.
Supported by Medical and public health technology research and development projects of WuXi science and technology development fund, No. CSE31N1501.
Institutional review board statement: All experiments were reviewed and approved by the Ethical Committee and Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Dongzhimen Hospital, No. SYXK(Beijing)2009.0028, and the methods were performed in strict accordance with the Animal Management Rules of the Chinese Ministry of Health.
Institutional animal care and use committee statement: All animal care and experimental procedures were conducted according to the institutional ethical guidelines and conformed to the requirements of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and the Animal Ethics Committee of Dongzhimen Hospital, No. SYXK(Beijing)2009.0028.
Conflict-of-interest statement: No potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article were reported.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
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Correspondence to: Zhan Qiang, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, Wuxi People’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, 299 Qing-Yang Road, Nan-Chang District, Wuxi 214023, Jiangsu Province, China.
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Received: August 23, 2016
Peer-review started: August 24, 2016
First decision: September 28, 2016
Revised: October 10, 2016
Accepted: November 15, 2016
Article in press: November 16, 2016
Published online: December 28, 2016
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