About the Authors

Hye Young Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Hye Young Kim, So Youn Park

Affiliation Medical Research Center for Ischemic Tissue Regeneration, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Gyeongnam, Republic of Korea

So Youn Park

Contributed equally to this work with: Hye Young Kim, So Youn Park

Affiliation Medical Research Center for Ischemic Tissue Regeneration, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Gyeongnam, Republic of Korea

Sung Won Lee

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Dong-A University, Busan, Republic of Korea

Hye Rin Lee

Affiliation Medical Research Center for Ischemic Tissue Regeneration, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Gyeongnam, Republic of Korea

Won Suk Lee

Affiliations Medical Research Center for Ischemic Tissue Regeneration, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Gyeongnam, Republic of Korea, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Gyeongnam, Republic of Korea

Byung Yong Rhim

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Gyeongnam, Republic of Korea

Ki Whan Hong

Affiliation Medical Research Center for Ischemic Tissue Regeneration, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Gyeongnam, Republic of Korea

Chi Dae Kim

chidkim@pusan.ac.kr

Affiliations Medical Research Center for Ischemic Tissue Regeneration, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Gyeongnam, Republic of Korea, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Gyeongnam, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HYK SYP CDK. Performed the experiments: HYK SYP CDK SWL HRL. Analyzed the data: WSL BYR KWH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WSL BYR KWH. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: KWH.