About the Authors

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

I-Ta Lee

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

Chun-Hao Hsu

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

Chih-Kai Hsu

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

Pei-Ling Chi

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

Li-Der Hsiao

Affiliation Department of Anesthetics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Lin-Kou and 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 Ageing 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: CCL ITL CKH CMY. Performed the experiments: CHH PLC CKH LDH. Analyzed the data: CCL ITL CKH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CHH PLC CKH LDH. Wrote the paper: CCL ITL CMY.