Luo, Qiulan
Zhou, Shiqing
Li, Xiaoshan
Chen, Qubo
Lin, Wenmin
Lu, Liming
Li, Hua
Chen, Caifeng
Chen, Wenyong
Li, Yunying https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0424-0154
Funding for this research was provided by:
Special Scientific Research for Chinese Medicine of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine (YN2015MS18)
Article History
Received: 9 November 2017
Accepted: 18 December 2018
First Online: 18 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
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