About the Authors
- Ming-Sheng Teng
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Affiliations Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Research, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
- Lung-An Hsu
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Affiliation The First Cardiovascular Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Semon Wu
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Affiliations Department of Research, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Life Science, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Yu-Chen Sun
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Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Shu-Hui Juan
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* E-mail: yulinkotw@yahoo.com.tw (YLK); juansh@tmu.edu.tw (SHJ)
Affiliation Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Yu-Lin Ko
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* E-mail: yulinkotw@yahoo.com.tw (YLK); juansh@tmu.edu.tw (SHJ)
Affiliations The Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Medical Center, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: YLK SHJ. Performed the experiments: MST YCS. Analyzed the data: MST LAH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SW. Wrote the paper: YLK SHJ MST.