About the Authors

Kuang-Ying Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan

Kuang-Yueh Chen

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Physics, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Hsin-Ping Hu

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Ching-Hao Teng

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Hsi-Hsun Lin

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, E-Da Hospital/I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Clinical Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan

Tzu-Hang Chen

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yao-Shen Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Yao-Shen Chen, Bing-Mu Hsu, Hau-Ren Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Bing-Mu Hsu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yao-Shen Chen, Bing-Mu Hsu, Hau-Ren Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

bmhsu@ccu.edu.tw (BMH); biohrc@ccu.edu.tw (HRC)

Affiliation Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan

Hau-Ren Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Yao-Shen Chen, Bing-Mu Hsu, Hau-Ren Chen

Roles Data curation, Supervision

bmhsu@ccu.edu.tw (BMH); biohrc@ccu.edu.tw (HRC)

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.