About the Authors

Chih-Chi Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chih-Chi Chang, Wein-Shung Kuo

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Laboratory Science in Medicine, School of Biomedical Science and Engineering, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Wein-Shung Kuo

Contributed equally to this work with: Chih-Chi Chang, Wein-Shung Kuo

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit, Cheng-Hsin General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Ying-Chieh Chen

Affiliation Division of Digestive Medicine, Taipei City Hospital Yangming Branch, Taipei, Taiwan

Chin-Lin Perng

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, VGH-Taipei, Taiwan, and School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Hwai-Jeng Lin

buddhistlearning@gmail.com (HJL); yhou@ym.edu.tw (YHO)

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Shuang-Ho Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan, and Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yueh-Hsing Ou

buddhistlearning@gmail.com (HJL); yhou@ym.edu.tw (YHO)

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Laboratory Science in Medicine, School of Biomedical Science and Engineering, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WSK YCC CLP HJL YHO. Performed the experiments: WSK YCC CLP HJL YHO. Analyzed the data: CCC WSK HJL YHO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WSK YCC CLP HJL YHO. Wrote the paper: CCC YHO.