About the Authors

Yu-Min Lin

Affiliations Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Yuan-Li Huang

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, College of Health Science, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan

Yi-Chin Fong

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Chun-Hao Tsai

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medicine and Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Ming-Chih Chou

Affiliation Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Chih-Hsin Tang

chtang@mail.cmu.edu.tw

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Science, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

All authors have no financial or personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence their work.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: C-H Tang. Performed the experiments: YML YLH. Analyzed the data: YML YLH YCF C-H Tsai. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YCF C-H Tsai. Wrote the paper: YML MCC C-H Tang.