About the Authors

Mi-Sook Lee

Current address: Department of Basic Oriental Medical Science, College of Oriental Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Affiliation Division of Bio-Imaging, Chuncheon Center, Korea Basic Science Institute, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea

Jae-In Jung

Affiliation Division of Bio-Imaging, Chuncheon Center, Korea Basic Science Institute, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea

Seung-Hae Kwon

Affiliation Division of Bio-Imaging, Chuncheon Center, Korea Basic Science Institute, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea

Sang-Mok Lee

Affiliation BiocurePharm, Daejeon Bio Venture Town, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Kyoji Morita

Affiliation Laboratory of Neuropharmacology, Department of Nursing, Shikoku University, School of Health Sciences, Tokushima, Japan

Song Her

swher@kbsi.re.kr

Affiliation Division of Bio-Imaging, Chuncheon Center, Korea Basic Science Institute, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

SML works at BiocurePharm, who produced the HSA/TIMP-2. The author has no influence on any part of the current project and confirms that this does not alter his adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. None of other authors have any potential conflict of interest to declare.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH. Performed the experiments: MSL JIJ SHK. Analyzed the data: MSL SH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH SML. Wrote the paper: MSL SH. Designed research: SH SML KM.