About the Authors
- Der-Chih Yang
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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
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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
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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
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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
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* E-mail: hungsc@vghtpe.gov.tw (S-CH); yauhung@mail.tku.edu.tw (Y-HC)
Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Shih-Chieh Hung
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* E-mail: 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.