About the Authors

Mey-Fann Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Mey-Fann Lee, Chu-Hui Chiang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Chu-Hui Chiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Mey-Fann Lee, Chu-Hui Chiang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Plant Medicine, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan

Ying-Lan Li

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan

Nancy M. Wang

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan

Pei-Pong Song

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Shyh-Jye Lin

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation School of Medical Laboratory and Biotechnology, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Yi-Hsing Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

ysanne@vghtc.gov.tw

Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.