About the Authors

Yuh-Mou Sue

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuh-Mou Sue, Hsiu-Chu Chou

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Taipei Medical University-Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsiu-Chu Chou

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuh-Mou Sue, Hsiu-Chu Chou

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chih-Cheng Chang

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Nian-Jie Yang

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Ying Chou

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Shu-Hui Juan

juansh@tmu.edu.tw

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YMS SHJ. Performed the experiments: HCC CCC NJY YC. Analyzed the data: HCC CCC NJY YC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HCC YMS SHJ. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SHJ.