About the Authors

Varadharajan Thiyagarajan

Affiliation Department of Life Science and the Institute of Biotechnology, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, 97401, Taiwan

May-Jywan Tsai

Affiliation Neural regeneration Laboratory, Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, 11217, Taiwan

Ching-Feng Weng

cfweng@mail.ndhu.edu.tw

Affiliation Department of Life Science and the Institute of Biotechnology, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, 97401, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CFW MJT. Performed the experiments: VT. Analyzed the data: VT CFW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CFW MJT. Wrote the paper: VT CFW.