About the Authors

Shue Dong Chung

Affiliations Department of Urology, Far East Memory Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Graduate Institution of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Urology, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Ting Yu Lai

Affiliations Department of Medical Research, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chiang Ting Chien

yhj5251@ntu.edu.tw (HJY); ctchien@ntnu.edu.tw (CTC)

Affiliations Department of Medical Research, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

Hong Jen Yu

yhj5251@ntu.edu.tw (HJY); ctchien@ntnu.edu.tw (CTC)

Affiliation Department of Urology, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SDC CTC HJY. Performed the experiments: SDC TYL CTC. Analyzed the data: SDC TYL CTC HJY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SDC TYL HJY. Wrote the paper: SDC TYL CTC HJY.