About the Authors

Juen-Haur Hwang

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Buddhist Dalin Tzu-Chi General Hospital, Dalin, Chiayi, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

Jin-Cherng Chen

Affiliations School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan, Department of Neurosurgery, Buddhist Dalin Tzu-Chi General Hospital, Dalin, Chiayi, Taiwan

Yin-Ching Chan

ycchan@pu.edu.tw

Affiliation Department of Food and Nutrition, Providence University, Shalu, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: J-HH. Performed the experiments: J-HH. Analyzed the data: J-HH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: J-CC Y-CC. Wrote the paper: J-HH.