About the Authors
- Tsung-Te Chung
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Contributed equally to this work with: Tsung-Te Chung, Chao-Bin Yeh
Affiliations Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Otolaryngology, Show Chwan Memorial Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan
- Chao-Bin Yeh
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Contributed equally to this work with: Tsung-Te Chung, Chao-Bin Yeh
Affiliations Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Emergency Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
- Yi-Ching Li
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Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
- Shih-Chi Su
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Affiliation Department of Urology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Ming-Hsien Chien
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Affiliations Taipei Medical University-Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Shun-Fa Yang
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Affiliation Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
- Yi-Hsien Hsieh
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* E-mail: hyhsien@csmu.edu.tw
Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Clinical Laboratory, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TC SY. Performed the experiments: MC YH SY. Analyzed the data: SS CY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TC YL SY. Wrote the paper: YH SY.