The work was supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (G199805110, G1998051115, No 2004CB518907), National Science & Technology Major Project "Key New Drug Creation and Manufacturing Program" China (Number: 2009ZX09103-063), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (39170860, 39770846, 3001161954, 30123005, 30271494, 30572169, and 30801402). The authors are grateful to Dr Xiao-qiu XIAO, Dr Jin ZHOU, Dr Han YAN, Dr Zhi-fei WANG, Dr Xin GAO, and others for their contributions to Hup A, ZT-1 or S-52 studies.
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