About the Authors

In-Gyu Je

Contributed equally to this work with: In-Gyu Je, Duk-Sil Kim

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 700–422, Republic of Korea

Duk-Sil Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: In-Gyu Je, Duk-Sil Kim

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, CHA Gumi Medical Center, CHA University, Gumi 730–040, Republic of Korea

Sung-Wan Kim

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, CHA Gumi Medical Center, CHA University, Gumi 730–040, Republic of Korea

Soyoung Lee

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 700–422, Republic of Korea

Hyun-Shik Lee

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702–701, Republic of Korea

Eui Kyun Park

Affiliation Department of Oral Pathology and Regenerative Medicine, School of Dentistry, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 700–412, Republic of Korea

Dongwoo Khang

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, Gachon University, Incheon 406–840, Republic of Korea

Sang-Hyun Kim

shkim72@knu.ac.kr

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 700–422, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IGJ DSK SHK. Performed the experiments: IGJ SL DSK HSL EKP. Analyzed the data: SWK. Wrote the paper: IGJ DK SHK.