About the Authors

Hui-Chun Ku

Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Shih-Yi Lee

Affiliations Institute of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Mackay Medicine, Nursing and Management College, Taipei, Taiwan

Kai-Chien Yang

mingja@ntu.edu.tw (MJS); kcyang@ntu.edu.tw (KCY)

Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yueh-Hsiung Kuo

Affiliations Department of Chinese Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chinese Medicine Resources, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Biotechnology, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan

Ming-Jai Su

mingja@ntu.edu.tw (MJS); kcyang@ntu.edu.tw (KCY)

Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HCK SYL KCY MJS. Performed the experiments: HCK SYL. Analyzed the data: HCK SYL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YHK KCY MJS. Wrote the paper: HCK MJS. Drug design: YHK.