About the Authors

Yan-Ren Lin

Affiliations Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, Republic of China, Department of Emergency Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan, Republic of China, School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Yao-Li Chen

Affiliations Transplant Medicine and Surgery Research Centre, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan, Republic of China, School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Keh-Bin Wang

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kuang Tien General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Yi-Fang Wu

Affiliation Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, Republic of China

Yu-Kuo Wang

yu.kuo@yahoo.com.tw (Y-KW); neuron.nctu@gmail.com (B-SY); tkwmll@mail.nctu.edu.tw (T-KW)

Affiliation Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, Republic of China

Sheng-Cih Huang

Affiliation Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, Republic of China

Tzu-An Liu

Affiliation Institute of Cellular and System Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan, Republic of China

Manoswini Nayak

Affiliation Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, Republic of China

Bak-Sau Yip

yu.kuo@yahoo.com.tw (Y-KW); neuron.nctu@gmail.com (B-SY); tkwmll@mail.nctu.edu.tw (T-KW)

Affiliation Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital Hsin Chu Branch, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, Republic of China

Tung-Kung Wu

yu.kuo@yahoo.com.tw (Y-KW); neuron.nctu@gmail.com (B-SY); tkwmll@mail.nctu.edu.tw (T-KW)

Affiliation Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YRL TKW. Performed the experiments: YKW YRL. Analyzed the data: YFW YRL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YLC KBW SCH TAL MN BSY. Wrote the paper: YRL.