About the Authors

Yun-Chi Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yun-Chi Lu, Chih-Hung Chuang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chih-Hung Chuang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yun-Chi Lu, Chih-Hung Chuang

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Health Sciences, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Drug Development and Value Creation Research Center, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Kuo-Hsiang Chuang

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Pharmacognosy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

I-Ju Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliations Drug Development and Value Creation Research Center, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Biomedical Science and Environmental Biology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Bo-Cheng Huang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Sciences, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Wen-Han Lee

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science and Environmental Biology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Hsin-Ell Wang

Roles Supervision, Visualization

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Biophotonics and Molecular Imaging Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Jia-Je Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yi-An Cheng

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Kai-Wen Cheng

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Drug Development and Value Creation Research Center, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Jaw-Yuan Wang

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Division of Gastroenterology and General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yuan-Chin Hsieh

Roles Methodology, Software

Affiliation Drug Development and Value Creation Research Center, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Wen-Wei Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

weber06272000@gmail.com (WWL); tlcheng@kmu.edu.tw (TLC)

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Drug Development and Value Creation Research Center, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Tian-Lu Cheng

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

weber06272000@gmail.com (WWL); tlcheng@kmu.edu.tw (TLC)

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Drug Development and Value Creation Research Center, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Biomedical Science and Environmental Biology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.