About the Authors

Yin-Che Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yin-Che Lu, Ying-Ray Lee, Ji-Der Liao

Affiliations Department of Health and Nutrition, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan, Taiwan, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chia-Yi Christian Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan

Ying-Ray Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Yin-Che Lu, Ying-Ray Lee, Ji-Der Liao

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chia-Yi Christian Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan

Ji-Der Liao

Contributed equally to this work with: Yin-Che Lu, Ying-Ray Lee, Ji-Der Liao

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Medicine and Life Science, Chung Hwa University of Medical Technology, Tainan, Taiwan

Ching-Yen Lin

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chia-Yi Christian Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan

Yih-Yuan Chen

Affiliations Department of Biochemical Science and Technology, National Chiayi University, Chiayi, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chia-Yi Christian Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan

Ping-Tzu Chen

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chia-Yi Christian Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan

Ya-Shih Tseng

shih415@mail.hwai.edu.tw

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Medicine and Life Science, Chung Hwa University of Medical Technology, Tainan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YCL YRL YST. Performed the experiments: YRL JDL YYC PTC. Analyzed the data: YCL YRL JDL YYC PTC YST. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YCL YRL YST. Wrote the paper: YCL YRL YYC YST.