About the Authors

Shin-Ei Cheng

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and Health Aging Research Center, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Kwei-San, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan

I-Ta Lee

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and Health Aging Research Center, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Kwei-San, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan, Department of Anesthetics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Lin-Kou and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Kwei-San, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan

Chih-Chung Lin

Affiliation Department of Anesthetics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Lin-Kou and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Kwei-San, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan

Wan-Ling Wu

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and Health Aging Research Center, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Kwei-San, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan

Li-Der Hsiao

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and Health Aging Research Center, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Kwei-San, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan

Chuen-Mao Yang

chuenmao@mail.cgu.edu.tw

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and Health Aging Research Center, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Kwei-San, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SEC ITL CCL CMY. Performed the experiments: SEC WLW LDH. Analyzed the data: CMY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SEC WLW CMY. Wrote the paper: ITL CCL CMY.