bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.15.204552; this version posted July 15, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 1 Quantitative proteomics reveals the protective effects of ESD against 2 osteoarthritis via attenuating inflammation and modulating immune 3 response 4 5 Ying Hao1,4,#, Yang Wu1,#, Shanglong Wang2,#, Chungguo Wang3, Sihao Qu1, Li Li2, Guohua Yu1, 6 Zimin Liu2, Zhen Zhao4, Pengcheng Fan5,*, Zengliang Zhang2,6,*, Yuanyuan Shi1,* 7 1 School of Life Sciences, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 102488, China 8 2 Chenland Nutritionals, Inc, Irvine, CA, 92614, USA 9 3 Beijing Research Institute of Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, 10 Beijing 100029, China 11 4 Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, 12 10065, USA 13 5 State Key Laboratory of Proteomics, National Center for Protein Sciences (Beijing), Institute of 14 Lifeomics, Beijing 102206, China 15 6 Traditional Chinese Medicine College, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Jinshan 16 Development Zone Hohhot, Inner Mongolia 010110,China 17 18 #These authors contributed equally to this work as co-first authors. 19 *Correspondence to: Yuanyuan Shi,
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[email protected]. 21 22 Abstract 23 Epimedium, Salvia miltiorrhiza, and Dioscorea nipponica Makino (ESD) have been combined to 24 treat osteoarthritis (OA) for a long time.