About the Authors

Hui-Chun Yu

Affiliations Department of Life Science and Institute of Molecular Biology, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, Section of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Buddhist DaLin Tzu-Chi Hospital, Chia-Yi, Taiwan

Ming-Chi Lu

Affiliations Section of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Buddhist DaLin Tzu-Chi Hospital, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu-Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

Chin Li

Affiliation Department of Life Science and Institute of Molecular Biology, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan

Hsien-Lu Huang

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Health Science, Fooyin University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Kuang-Yung Huang

Affiliations Section of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Buddhist DaLin Tzu-Chi Hospital, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu-Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

Su-Qin Liu

Affiliation Section of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Buddhist DaLin Tzu-Chi Hospital, Chia-Yi, Taiwan

Ning-Sheng Lai

Q12015@tzuchi.com.tw (NSL); biohbh@ccu.edu.tw (HBH)

Affiliations Section of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Buddhist DaLin Tzu-Chi Hospital, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu-Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

Hsien-Bin Huang

Q12015@tzuchi.com.tw (NSL); biohbh@ccu.edu.tw (HBH)

Affiliation Department of Life Science and Institute of Molecular Biology, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HCY NSL HBH. Performed the experiments: HCY HLH SQL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HCY MCL CL KYH SQL NSL HBH. Wrote the manuscript: CL NSL HBH.