About the Authors

Chang-Ching Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chang-Ching Yang, Yang-Hsin Shih, Miau-Hwa Ko

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Yang-Hsin Shih

Contributed equally to this work with: Chang-Ching Yang, Yang-Hsin Shih, Miau-Hwa Ko

Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Miau-Hwa Ko

Contributed equally to this work with: Chang-Ching Yang, Yang-Hsin Shih, Miau-Hwa Ko

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Shao-Yun Hsu

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Henrich Cheng

hc_cheng@vghtpe.gov.tw (HC); ysfu@ym.edu.tw (Y-SF)

Affiliations Neural Regeneration Laboratory, Department of Neurosurgery, Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan, Republic of China, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Yu-Show Fu

hc_cheng@vghtpe.gov.tw (HC); ysfu@ym.edu.tw (Y-SF)

Affiliations Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Department of Education and Research, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YHS HC YSF. Performed the experiments: CCY YHS MHK SYH. Analyzed the data: CCY YSF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MHK. Wrote the paper: HC YSF.