About the Authors

Men-Luh Yen

Affiliations Department of General Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Ping-Ning Hsu

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Immunology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsiu-Jung Liao

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Immunology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Be-Hang Lee

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Immunology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Hwei-Fang Tsai

hftsai8635@yahoo.com.tw

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical University Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MLY PNH HFT. Performed the experiments: MLY HJL BHL. Analyzed the data: PNH HJL HFT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PNH HJL HFT. Wrote the paper: MLY HFT.