About the Authors

Yi-Li Wang

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsin-Hsueh Shen

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Pao-Yun Cheng

Affiliation Department of Physiology & Biophysics, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Yen-Ju Chu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Hwong-Ru Hwang

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Kwok-Keung Lam

ymlee@mail.ndmctsgh.edu.tw (YML); lamkkmi@hotmail.com (KKL)

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, Catholic Mercy Hospital, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Yen-Mei Lee

ymlee@mail.ndmctsgh.edu.tw (YML); lamkkmi@hotmail.com (KKL)

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Pharmacology, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YLW KKL YML. Performed the experiments: YLW YJC HRH. Analyzed the data: HHS PYC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YLW. Wrote the paper: YLW YML.