About the Authors

Ren-Jun Hsu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ren-Jun Hsu, Kuang-Ming Hsiao

Current address: Department and Division of Pathology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Affiliation Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Kuang-Ming Hsiao

Contributed equally to this work with: Ren-Jun Hsu, Kuang-Ming Hsiao

Affiliation Department of Life Science, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, Republic of China

Min-Jon Lin

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Chui-Yen Li

Affiliation Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Li-Chun Wang

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Luen-Kui Chen

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Huichin Pan

hp29@csmu.edu.tw

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China, Department of Medical Research, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HP KMH RJH. Performed the experiments: RJH CYL LCW LKC. Analyzed the data: HP RJH KMH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJL KMH HP. Wrote the paper: HP.