About the Authors

Hyuk Nam Kwon

Contributed equally to this work with: Hyuk Nam Kwon, Yeon Ji Lee, Ju-Hee Kang

Affiliation College of Pharmacy, Natural Product Research Institute, Seoul National University, Sillim-dong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, Korea, 151-742

Yeon Ji Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Hyuk Nam Kwon, Yeon Ji Lee, Ju-Hee Kang

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Obesity center, Inha University Hospital, Inha University School of Medicine, Shinheung-dong, Jung-Gu, Incheon, Korea, 400-712

Ju-Hee Kang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hyuk Nam Kwon, Yeon Ji Lee, Ju-Hee Kang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Hypoxia-related disease Research, Inha University Hospital, Inha University School of Medicine, Shinheung-dong, Jung-Gu, Incheon, Korea, 400-712

Ji-ho Choi

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Obesity center, Inha University Hospital, Inha University School of Medicine, Shinheung-dong, Jung-Gu, Incheon, Korea, 400-712

Yong Jin An

Affiliation College of Pharmacy, Natural Product Research Institute, Seoul National University, Sillim-dong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, Korea, 151-742

Sunmi Kang

Affiliation College of Pharmacy, Natural Product Research Institute, Seoul National University, Sillim-dong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, Korea, 151-742

Dae Hyun Lee

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Inha University Hospital, Inha University School of Medicine, Shinheung-dong, Jung-Gu, Incheon, Korea, 400-712

Young Ju Suh

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Inha University Hospital, Inha University School of Medicine, Shinheung-dong, Jung-Gu, Incheon, Korea, 400-712

Yoonseok Heo

psh@snu.ac.kr (SP); gshur@inha.ac.kr (YH)

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Inha University Hospital, Inha University School of Medicine, Shinheung-dong, Jung-Gu, Incheon, Korea, 400-712

Sunghyouk Park

psh@snu.ac.kr (SP); gshur@inha.ac.kr (YH)

Affiliation College of Pharmacy, Natural Product Research Institute, Seoul National University, Sillim-dong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, Korea, 151-742

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YJL JHC SP. Performed the experiments: HNK YJL JHC YJA SK DHL. Analyzed the data: HNK YJL YJA SK DHL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HNK YJL JHC YJA SK DHL YJS. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: YJL JHK SP YH.