About the Authors

Shao-Chun Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Shao-Chun Wu, Johnson Chia-Shen Yang, Cheng-Shyuan Rau

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Johnson Chia-Shen Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shao-Chun Wu, Johnson Chia-Shen Yang, Cheng-Shyuan Rau

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Cheng-Shyuan Rau

Contributed equally to this work with: Shao-Chun Wu, Johnson Chia-Shen Yang, Cheng-Shyuan Rau

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yi-Chun Chen

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Tsu-Hsiang Lu

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Ming-Wei Lin

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Siou-Ling Tzeng

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yi-Chan Wu

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chia-Jung Wu

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Ching-Hua Hsieh

m93chinghua@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CHH. Performed the experiments: YCC THL SLT. Analyzed the data: SCW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JCY CSR. Wrote the paper: CHH SCW. Participated in qRT-PCR experiment: YCW, CJW. Hierarchical cluster analysis and acquisition of all data: MWL.