About the Authors

Chang Joo Oh

Affiliation Departments of Internal Medicine, Research Institute of Aging and Metabolism, WCU Program, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Joon-Young Kim

Affiliations Departments of Internal Medicine, Research Institute of Aging and Metabolism, WCU Program, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea, GIST College, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

Young-Keun Choi

Affiliation Departments of Internal Medicine, Research Institute of Aging and Metabolism, WCU Program, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Han-Jong Kim

Affiliations Departments of Internal Medicine, Research Institute of Aging and Metabolism, WCU Program, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea, Research Institute of Clinical Medicine, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, Hwasun, Republic of Korea

Ji-Yun Jeong

Affiliation Departments of Internal Medicine, Research Institute of Aging and Metabolism, WCU Program, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Kwi-Hyun Bae

Affiliation Departments of Internal Medicine, Research Institute of Aging and Metabolism, WCU Program, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Keun-Gyu Park

Affiliation Departments of Internal Medicine, Research Institute of Aging and Metabolism, WCU Program, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

In-Kyu Lee

leei@knu.ac.kr

Affiliation Departments of Internal Medicine, Research Institute of Aging and Metabolism, WCU Program, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CJO JYK HJK KGP IKL. Performed the experiments: CJO YKC. Analyzed the data: CJO JYK HJK KGP IKL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JYK YKC HJK JYJ KHB KGP IKL. Wrote the paper: CJO KGP JYK IKL.