About the Authors

Ming-Che Liu

Affiliations Department of Urology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C, Department of Urology, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C, Graduate Institute of Biomedical Materials and Tissue Engineering, College of Biomedical Engineering, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C

Wei-Hong Chen

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Biomedical Materials and Tissue Engineering, College of Biomedical Engineering, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C, Stem Cell Research Center, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C

Chi-Sheng Chiou

Affiliations School of Dentistry, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C

Wen-Cheng Lo

Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C, School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Navneet Kumar Dubey

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Biomedical Materials and Tissue Engineering, College of Biomedical Engineering, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C, Stem Cell Research Center, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C

Yu-Chin Chen

Affiliation Stem Cell Research Center, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C

Wen-Fu T. Lai

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Shauh-Der Yeh

Affiliations Department of Urology, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Han-Sun Chiang

Affiliations Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Cardinal Tien Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, College of Medicine, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan

Win-Ping Deng

wpdeng@tmu.edu.tw

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Biomedical Materials and Tissue Engineering, College of Biomedical Engineering, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C, Stem Cell Research Center, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C, College of Oral medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MCL WHC CSC WCL NKD WPD. Data curation: MCL WHC CSC WCL NKD WPD WFTL. Formal analysis: YCC SDY WFTL. Funding acquisition: MCL WHC WPD. Investigation: MCL WHC WPD. Methodology: MCL WHC CSC WCL NKD WPD. Project administration: MCL WHC WPD. Resources: MCL WHC CSC WCL NKD WPD. Software: WHC YCC SDY. Supervision: MCL WHC WPD. Validation: MCL WHC CSC WCL NKD SDY HSC WPD WFTL. Visualization: MCL WHC CSC WCL NKD. Writing – original draft: MCL WHC CSC WCL NKD WPD WFTL. Writing – review & editing: WHC CSC WCL NKD HSC WPD.