About the Authors

Fu-Chao Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Fu-Chao Liu, Huang-Ping Yu

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Huang-Ping Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Fu-Chao Liu, Huang-Ping Yu

yuhp2001@adm.cgmh.org.tw

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Tsong-Long Hwang

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Natural Products, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Yung-Fong Tsai

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FCL HPY. Performed the experiments: FCL. Analyzed the data: FCL TLH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TLH YFT. Wrote the paper: FCL YFT HPY.