About the Authors

Kai-Chen Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Kai-Chen Wang, Kuan-Hsiang Lin

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Cheng Hsin General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, National Yang-Ming University, School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Kuan-Hsiang Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Kai-Chen Wang, Kuan-Hsiang Lin

Affiliations Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, National Yang-Ming University, School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Tzu-Chi Lee

Affiliation Faculty of Public health, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chao-Lin Lee

Affiliations National Yang-Ming University, School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Neurology, I-Lan Hospital, I-Lan, Taiwan

Shao-Yuan Chen

Affiliation Section of Hyperbaric Oxygen Medicine, Cardinal Tien Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Shyi-Jou Chen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Li-Te Chin

litechin@yahoo.com.tw (LTC); cptsai@vghtpe.gov.tw (CPT)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, National Chayi University, Chayi, Taiwan

Ching-Piao Tsai

litechin@yahoo.com.tw (LTC); cptsai@vghtpe.gov.tw (CPT)

Affiliations Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, National Yang-Ming University, School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CPT. Performed the experiments: KCW TCL. Analyzed the data: KCW TCL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SYC SJC. Wrote the paper: KCW KHL CPT. Revised article critically for important intellectual content: CLL SYC KHL SJC LTC. Final approval of the version to be published: KCW TCL CLL SYC KHL SJC LTC CPT. Analysis and interpretation of data: TCL CLL SYC SJC LTC CPT.