About the Authors

Kuang-Liang Hsiao

Affiliations Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Li-Yu Wang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Chiung-Ling Lin

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsin-Fu Liu

hsinfu@mmh.org.tw

Affiliations Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Nursing, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KLH LYW HFL. Performed the experiments: KLH CLL. Analyzed the data: KLH HFL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LYW CLL HFL. Wrote the paper: KLH HFL.