Yang Cao: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing
– original draft
Qing Ye: Role: InvestigationRole: Validation
Mengfei Zhuang: Role: Data curation
Shuwu Xie: Role: Formal analysisRole: Investigation
Ruihua Zhong: Role: Investigation
Jingang Cui: Role: Investigation
Jieyun Zhou: Role: Data curation
Yan Zhu: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Supervision
Tingting Zhang:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1919-1471
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Supervision
Lin Cao: Role: Conceptualization
Renping Zhou: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
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Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
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)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
15
November
2017
Publication date Collection: 2017
Volume: 12
Issue: 11
Electronic Location Identifier: e0186520
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Gynecology, Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western
Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
[2
]
Department of Neurology, Longhua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese
Medicine, Shanghai, China
[3
]
Department of Reproductive Pharmacology, NPFPC Key Laboratory of Contraceptives and
Devices, Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research, Shanghai, China
[4
]
Clinical Research Institute of Integrative Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional
Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
Rutgers University, UNITED STATES
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Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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PONE-D-17-12962
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0186520
PMC ID: 5687597
PubMed ID: 29140979
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Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001809, National Natural Science Foundation of China;
Award ID: 81302996
Award Recipient
:
Yang Cao
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100008410, Shanghai Municipal Population and Family Planning Commission;
Award ID: ZY3-CCCX-3-3019
Award Recipient
: Ting-ting Zhang
This project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.
81302996) and Shanghai Municipal population and Family Planning commission (No.ZY3-CCCX-3-3019).
The funders provide only financial aid, and there was no individuals employed or contracted
by the funders. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis,
decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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