About the Authors

Shian-Shiang Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shian-Shiang Wang, Yu-Fan Liu

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

Yu-Fan Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Shian-Shiang Wang, Yu-Fan Liu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Yen-Chuan Ou

Affiliation Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Chuan-Shu Chen

Affiliation Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Jian-Ri Li

Affiliation Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Shun-Fa Yang

ysf@csmu.edu.tw

Affiliations Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SSW SFY. Performed the experiments: YFL SFY. Analyzed the data: SSW SFY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SSW YCO CSC JRL. Wrote the paper: SSW SFY.