From the 1Central Laboratory of the Institute of Molecular Technology for Drug Discovery and Synthesis, Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China; 2Department of Medical Psychology and Psychiatry, Medical College of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China; 3Shenzhen Research Institute of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, State Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine and Molecular Pharmacology, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China; 4Center of System Biomedical Sciences, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, People's Republic of China; and 5School of Chinese Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China.
Received February 3, 2010; revised and accepted March 16, 2010.
Funding/support: This work was supported by the Niche Area Research Scheme (1-BB8N) and Research Studentship from the Research Committee of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Financial disclosure/conflicts of interest: None reported.
Address correspondence to: Man-Sau Wong, PhD, Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China. E-mail: [email protected]