About the Authors

Won Tae Kim

Affiliation Department of Urology, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea

Seok Joong Yun

Affiliation Department of Urology, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea

Cheol Park

Affiliation Department of Urology, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea

Isaac Yi Kim

Affiliation Section of Urologic Oncology, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Sung-Kwon Moon

Affiliation Department of Food and Biotechnology, Chungju National University, Chungju, Republic of Korea

Tae Gyun Kwon

Affiliation Department of Urology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Yung Hyun Choi

Affiliation Department of Biomaterial Control, Dong-Eui University, Busan, Republic of Korea

Wun-Jae Kim

wjkim@chungbuk.ac.kr

Affiliation Department of Urology, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WTK SJY WJK. Performed the experiments: WTK SJY CP. Analyzed the data: WTK SJY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IYK SKM TGK YHC. Wrote the paper: WTK SJY WJK. Supervised this study: IYK SKM TGK YHC.