About the Authors

Yu-Lin Hsieh

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-Lin Hsieh, Chih-Lung Lin

Affiliations Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chih-Lung Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-Lin Hsieh, Chih-Lung Lin

Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Hao Chiang

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yaw-Syan Fu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science and Environmental Biology, College of Science, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

June-Horng Lue

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Sung-Tsang Hsieh

shsieh@ntu.edu.tw

Affiliations Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: STH. Performed the experiments: YLH CLL HC. Analyzed the data: YLH JHL STH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: STH YLH CLL YSF. Wrote the paper: YLH CLL JHL STH.