About the Authors

Hyeon-Ji Kang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hyeon-Ji Kang, Hyun-Ae Seo

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, Graduate School, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Hyun-Ae Seo

Contributed equally to this work with: Hyeon-Ji Kang, Hyun-Ae Seo

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Research Institute of Aging and Metabolism, WCU Program, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea, Departments of Internal Medicine, Daegu Fatima Hospital, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Younghoon Go

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Research Institute of Aging and Metabolism, WCU Program, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Chang Joo Oh

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Research Institute of Aging and Metabolism, WCU Program, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Nam Ho Jeoung

Affiliation Department of Fundamental Medical & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Catholic University of Daegu, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Keun-Gyu Park

kpark@knu.ac.kr (K-GP); leei@knu.ac.kr (I-KL)

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Research Institute of Aging and Metabolism, WCU Program, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

In-Kyu Lee

kpark@knu.ac.kr (K-GP); leei@knu.ac.kr (I-KL)

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Research Institute of Aging and Metabolism, WCU Program, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HJK HAS YHG KGP IKL. Performed the experiments: HJK HAS YHG. Analyzed the data: HJK HAS KGP IKL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HJK HAS YHG CJO NHJ KGP IKL. Wrote the paper: HJK HAS KGP IKL.