About the Authors

Tzu-Yue Shiu

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Shih-Ming Huang

Affiliation Department of and Graduate Institute of Biochemistry, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Yu-Lueng Shih

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Heng-Cheng Chu

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Wei-Kuo Chang

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Tsai-Yuan Hsieh

tyh1216@ms46.hinet.net

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Final approval of the version to be published: SMH TYH. Conceived and designed the experiments: TYS TYH. Performed the experiments: TYS SMH. Analyzed the data: YLS HCC WKC. Wrote the paper: TYS.