About the Authors

Yo-Ping Lai

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chia-Ching Lin

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Wan-Jung Liao

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chih-Yung Tang

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Physiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Shu-Ching Chen

mdchensc@ntu.edu.tw

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YPL SCC. Performed the experiments: YPL CCL WJL SCC. Analyzed the data: CCL CYT SCC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YPL CYT. Wrote the paper: SCC.