About the Authors

Juu-Chin Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Juu-Chin Lu, Yu-Ting Chiang

juuchin@mail.cgu.edu.tw

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan

Yu-Ting Chiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Juu-Chin Lu, Yu-Ting Chiang

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Yu-Chun Lin

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Yu-Tzu Chang

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Chia-Yun Lu

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Tzu-Yu Chen

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Chia-Shan Yeh

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JCL. Formal analysis: Y. T. Chiang JCL. Funding acquisition: JCL. Investigation: Y. T. Chiang YCL Y. T. Chang CSY CYL JCL TYC. Supervision: JCL. Validation: Y. T. Chiang JCL. Visualization: Y. T. Chiang JCL. Writing – original draft: JCL Y. T. Chiang. Writing – review & editing: JCL Y. T. Chiang.