About the Authors

Ying Ju Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Ju Chen, Meei Ling Sheu, Keh Sung Tsai

Affiliation Institute of Toxicology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Meei Ling Sheu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Ju Chen, Meei Ling Sheu, Keh Sung Tsai

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Sciences, National Chung Hsing University and Department of Education and Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Keh Sung Tsai

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Ju Chen, Meei Ling Sheu, Keh Sung Tsai

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Rong Sen Yang

shinghwaliu@ntu.edu.tw (SHL); rsyang@ntuh.gov.tw (RSY)

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Shing Hwa Liu

shinghwaliu@ntu.edu.tw (SHL); rsyang@ntuh.gov.tw (RSY)

Affiliation Institute of Toxicology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SHL RSY. Performed the experiments: YJC MLS KST. Analyzed the data: YJC MLS KST RSY SHL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MLS. Wrote the paper: YJC SHL.