About the Authors

Hyeong-Geug Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Hyeong-Geug Kim, Jung-Hyo Cho

Affiliation Liver and Immunology Research Center, Daejeon Oriental Hospital of Daejeon University, Jung-gu, Daejeon, South Korea

Jung-Hyo Cho

Contributed equally to this work with: Hyeong-Geug Kim, Jung-Hyo Cho

Affiliation Liver and Immunology Research Center, Daejeon Oriental Hospital of Daejeon University, Jung-gu, Daejeon, South Korea

Sa-Ra Yoo

Affiliation Liver and Immunology Research Center, Daejeon Oriental Hospital of Daejeon University, Jung-gu, Daejeon, South Korea

Jin-Seok Lee

Affiliation Liver and Immunology Research Center, Daejeon Oriental Hospital of Daejeon University, Jung-gu, Daejeon, South Korea

Jong-Min Han

Affiliation Liver and Immunology Research Center, Daejeon Oriental Hospital of Daejeon University, Jung-gu, Daejeon, South Korea

Nam-Hun Lee

Affiliation Liver and Immunology Research Center, Daejeon Oriental Hospital of Daejeon University, Jung-gu, Daejeon, South Korea

Yo-Chan Ahn

Affiliation Department of Health Service Management Daejeon University, Dong-gu, Daejeon, South Korea

Chang-Gue Son

ckson@dju.ac.kr

Affiliation Liver and Immunology Research Center, Daejeon Oriental Hospital of Daejeon University, Jung-gu, Daejeon, South Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CGS JHC. Performed the experiments: HGK JSL SRY NHL. Analyzed the data: YCA JMH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HGK JHC. Wrote the paper: CGS HGK.