About the Authors

Hyun Young Park

Affiliation Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Korea

Chang-Duk Jun

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, GIST, Gwangju, Korea

Se-Jeong Jeon

Affiliation Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Korea

See-Sung Choi

Affiliation Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Korea

Hak-Ryul Kim

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Korea

Dan-Bee Choi

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Korea

Seongae Kwak

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Korea

Hak-Seung Lee

Affiliation Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Korea

Jin Sung Cheong

Affiliation Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Korea

Hong-Seob So

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Korea, Center for Metabolic Function Regulation, Institute of Wonkwang Medical Science, and Institute of Wonkwang Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Korea

Young-Jin Lee

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Korea

Do-Sim Park

emailds@hanmail.net

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Korea, Center for Metabolic Function Regulation, Institute of Wonkwang Medical Science, and Institute of Wonkwang Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HYP CDJ SJJ HSL JSC DSP. Performed the experiments: HYP CDJ HRK DBC SK DSP. Analyzed the data: HYP SJJ SSC HRK HSL JSC DSP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HYP HSS YJL DSP. Wrote the paper: HYP DSP.