About the Authors

Tony Tung-Yin Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Tony Tung-Yin Lee, Cheng-Fang Tsai

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Center of Excellence for Environmental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Cheng-Fang Tsai

Contributed equally to this work with: Tony Tung-Yin Lee, Cheng-Fang Tsai

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Tsung-Hsun Hsieh

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Jia-Jin Jason Chen

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Yu-Chih Wang

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Center of Excellence for Environmental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Mi-Chun Kao

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Center of Excellence for Environmental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Ruey-Meei Wu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Sher Singh

Affiliation Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

Eing-Mei Tsai

jaunanlee@hotmail.com (JNL) (ET); tsaieing@yahoo.com (EMT) (JL)

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Center of Excellence for Environmental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Jau-Nan Lee

jaunanlee@hotmail.com (JNL) (ET); tsaieing@yahoo.com (EMT) (JL)

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Center of Excellence for Environmental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JNL EMT. Performed the experiments: TTYL THH JJJC RMW CFT YCW MCK. Analyzed the data: JNL EMT THH SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JNL EMT THH SS. Wrote the paper: JNL EMT TTYL.