About the Authors

Mei-Hui Liao

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, National Defence Medical Centre, Taipei, R.O.C., Taiwan

Chih-Chin Shih

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, National Defence Medical Centre, Taipei, R.O.C., Taiwan, Department of Pharmacology, National Defence Medical Centre, Taipei, R.O.C., Taiwan

Cheng-Ming Tsao

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, National Yang-Ming University, and National Defence Medical Centre, Taipei, R.O.C., Taiwan

Shiu-Jen Chen

sjchen@knjc.edu.tw (SJC); ccwu@ndmctsgh.edu.tw (CCW)

Affiliations Department of Nursing, Kang-Ning Junior College of Medical Care and Management, Taipei, R.O.C., Taiwan, Department of Physiology, National Defence Medical Centre, Taipei, R.O.C., Taiwan

Chin-Chen Wu

sjchen@knjc.edu.tw (SJC); ccwu@ndmctsgh.edu.tw (CCW)

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, National Defence Medical Centre, Taipei, R.O.C., Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MHL SJC CCW. Performed the experiments: MHL. Analyzed the data: MHL CCS CMT CCW. Wrote the paper: MHL CCS.