About the Authors

Lan-Hui Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Lan-Hui Li, Tz-Chuen Ju

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lisen, Chinese Medicine and Kunming Branch, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Tz-Chuen Ju

Contributed equally to this work with: Lan-Hui Li, Tz-Chuen Ju

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Nursing, St. Mary's Junior College of Medicine, Nursing and Management, Ilan, Taiwan

Chih-Yu Hsieh

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Animal Science, National Ilan University, Ilan, Taiwan

Wei-Chih Dong

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Animal Science, National Ilan University, Ilan, Taiwan

Wan-Tze Chen

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Animal Science, National Ilan University, Ilan, Taiwan

Kuo-Feng Hua

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kuofenghua@gmail.com (KFH); wjchen@niu.edu.tw (WJC)

Affiliations Department of Biotechnology and Animal Science, National Ilan University, Ilan, Taiwan, Department of Pathology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Wei-Jung Chen

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

kuofenghua@gmail.com (KFH); wjchen@niu.edu.tw (WJC)

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Animal Science, National Ilan University, Ilan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.