About the Authors

Der-Chih Yang

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research and Education, Veterans General Hospital-Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

Muh-Hwa Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Muh-Hwa Yang, Chih-Chien Tsai

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Hematology-Oncology, Veterans General Hospital-Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

Chih-Chien Tsai

Contributed equally to this work with: Muh-Hwa Yang, Chih-Chien Tsai

Affiliations Pharmacology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research and Education, Veterans General Hospital-Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

Tung-Fu Huang

Affiliations Department of Surgery, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Veterans General Hospital-Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan, Hematology-Oncology, Veterans General Hospital-Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

Yau-Hung Chen

hungsc@vghtpe.gov.tw (S-CH); yauhung@mail.tku.edu.tw (Y-HC)

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan

Shih-Chieh Hung

hungsc@vghtpe.gov.tw (S-CH); yauhung@mail.tku.edu.tw (Y-HC)

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Pharmacology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research and Education, Veterans General Hospital-Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan, Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Veterans General Hospital-Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: D-CY T-FH Y-HC SCH. Performed the experiments: D-CY M-HY C-CT T-FH. Analyzed the data: D-CY M-HY C-CT T-FH Y-HC S-CH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Y-HC S-CH. Wrote the paper: D-CY Y-HC S-CH.