About the Authors

Yi-Chao Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Chao Lee, Ying-Chen Yang

Affiliation Ph.D. Program for Neural Regenerative Medicine, College of Medical Science and Technology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Ying-Chen Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Chao Lee, Ying-Chen Yang

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, National Ilan University, Ilan, Taiwan, Republic of China

Chuen-Lin Huang

Affiliations Medical Research Center, Cardinal Tien Hospital, Hsintien, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China, Graduate Institute of Physiology and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Tsun-Yung Kuo

Affiliations Department of Animal Science, National Ilan University, Ilan, Taiwan, Republic of China, Institute of Biotechnology, National Ilan University, Ilan, Taiwan, Republic of China

Jung-Hsin Lin

Affiliations School of Pharmacy, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Division of Mechanics, Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

De-Ming Yang

Affiliations Department of Medical Research and Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Institute of Biophotonics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Nai-Kuei Huang

andrew@nricm.edu.tw

Affiliations Institute of Biophotonics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, National Research Institute of Chinese Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: N-KH C-LH. Performed the experiments: N-KH Y-CL. Analyzed the data: Y-CY T-YK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: J-HL D-MY. Wrote the paper: N-KH.