About the Authors

Yi-Cheng Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Cheng Chen, Pi-Ju Tsai

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Pi-Ju Tsai

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Cheng Chen, Pi-Ju Tsai

Affiliation Department of Business Administration, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Yaw-Bin Huang

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Pao-Chu Wu

pachwu@kmu.edu.tw

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Competing Interests

Standard Chem & Pharm Co., LTD., partly funded this study. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PCW PJT. Performed the experiments: YCC. Analyzed the data: PCW PJT YBH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PJT. Wrote the paper: YBH PCW.