About the Authors

Chih-Hsiang Chang

Affiliation Orthopaedic Research Center, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chau-Zen Wang

Affiliations Orthopaedic Research Center, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Je-Ken Chang

Affiliations Orthopaedic Research Center, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Orthopaedics, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Orthopaedics, Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Che-Yu Hsu

Affiliation Orthopaedic Research Center, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Mei-Ling Ho

homelin@kmu.edu.tw

Affiliations Orthopaedic Research Center, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: C-HC C-ZW J-KC C-YH M-LH. Performed the experiments: C-HC C-YH. Analyzed the data: C-HC C-ZW C-YH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: J-KC. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: C-HC C-ZW M-LH.