About the Authors
- Hung-Yu Yang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hung-Yu Yang, Ya-Fen Hsu
Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Taipei Medical University-Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
- Ya-Fen Hsu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hung-Yu Yang, Ya-Fen Hsu
Affiliation Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Landseed Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Pei-Ting Chiu
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Affiliation Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Shiau-Jing Ho
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Affiliation NatureWise Biotech & Medicals Corporation, Taipei, Taiwan
- Chi-Han Wang
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Affiliation NatureWise Biotech & Medicals Corporation, Taipei, Taiwan
- Chih-Chin Chi
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Affiliation NatureWise Biotech & Medicals Corporation, Taipei, Taiwan
- Yu-Han Huang
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Affiliation Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Cheng-Feng Lee
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Affiliation NatureWise Biotech & Medicals Corporation, Taipei, Taiwan
- Ying-Shiuan Li
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Affiliation NatureWise Biotech & Medicals Corporation, Taipei, Taiwan
- George Ou
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Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Ming-Jen Hsu
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* E-mail: aspirin@tmu.edu.tw
Affiliations Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
Competing Interests
NatureWise Biotech & Medicals Corporation is the developer and patent holder on BMX and its derivatives in several countries. Patent name: CINAMIC COMPOUNDS AND DERIVATIVES THEREFROM FOR THE INHIBITION OF HISTONE DEACETYLASE. Patent number: US7994357. Shiau-Jing Ho, Chi-Han Wang, Chih-Chin Chi, Cheng-Feng Lee and Ying-Shiuan Li are employed by NatureWise Biotech & Medicals Corporation. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HYY YFH MJH. Performed the experiments: PTC YHH MJH. Analyzed the data: HYY YFH PTC YHH MJH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJH CHW CCC CFL YSL. Wrote the paper: HYY YFH GO MJH.