About the Authors

Hsing-Jin Chen

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine College of Medicine of National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Bor-Luen Chiang

gicmbor@ntu.edu.tw

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Immunology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HJC BLC. Performed the experiments: HJC. Analyzed the data: HJC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HJC BLC. Wrote the paper: HJC. Provided suggestions and solutions when there were problems during the experiment: BLC.