This study was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 81102557 and 81573875), Doctoral Program Foundation of Higher Education of China (No. 20104323110001), Aid Project for Innovation Platform Open Fund of Hunan Province University (Nos. 11K050 and 14K068), Key Project of Administration of traditional Chinese Medicine of Hunan province (Nos. 201301 and 201509), General Project of Science and Technology Department of Hunan Province (No. 2014SK3001), Aid Program for Science and Technology Innovative Research Team in Higher Educational Institutions of Hunan Province for “Related research on prevention and treatment of cardio-cerebrovascular diseases with integrated traditional Chinese and Western Medicine”, Hunan Province Natural Science Innovation Group for “Fundamental research of Chinese medicine on prevention and treatment of cardio-cerebrovascular diseases”.