About the Authors

Min-Yu Tu

Contributed equally to this work with: Min-Yu Tu, Hsiao-Ling Chen

Affiliations Department of Life Sciences, and Agricultural Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Taichung Armed Forces General Hospital, Taichung 411, Taiwan, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Hungkuang University, Taichung 433, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei 114, Taiwan

Hsiao-Ling Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Min-Yu Tu, Hsiao-Ling Chen

Affiliation Department of Bioresources, Da-Yeh University, Changhua 515, Taiwan

Yu-Tang Tung

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, and Agricultural Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan

Chao-Chih Kao

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, and Agricultural Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan

Fu-Chang Hu

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine and School of Nursing College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei 100, Taiwan

Chuan-Mu Chen

chchen1@dragon.nchu.edu.tw

Affiliations Department of Life Sciences, and Agricultural Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, and the iEGG Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MYT HLC CMC. Performed the experiments: MYT CCK. Analyzed the data: YTT FCH HLC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MYT FCH CMC. Wrote the paper: MYT YTT CMC.