About the Authors

Bi-Juan Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Bi-Juan Wang, Shih-Han Huang, Cheng-Li Kao

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Institute of Cellular and System Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli County, Taiwan

Shih-Han Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Bi-Juan Wang, Shih-Han Huang, Cheng-Li Kao

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

Affiliations Institute of Cellular and System Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli County, Taiwan, Department of Life Sciences, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan

Cheng-Li Kao

Contributed equally to this work with: Bi-Juan Wang, Shih-Han Huang, Cheng-Li Kao

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation

Affiliations Division of Urology, Departments of Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taoyuan Armed Forces General Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Christo J. F. Muller

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biomedical Research and Innovation Platform (BRIP), South African Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, South Africa, Division of Medical Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Zululand, KwaDlangezwa, South Africa

Ya-Pei Wang

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Institute of Cellular and System Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli County, Taiwan

Kai-Hsiung Chang

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Institute of Cellular and System Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli County, Taiwan

Hui-Chin Wen

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute of Cellular and System Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli County, Taiwan

Chien-Chih Yeh

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation

Affiliations Department of Education and Medical Research, Taoyuan Armed Forces General Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Li-Jane Shih

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation

Affiliations Department of Education and Medical Research, Taoyuan Armed Forces General Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Medical Science, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Yung-Hsi Kao

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan

Shu-Pin Huang

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Urology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung Taiwan, Department of Urology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Science, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

Chia-Yang Li

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chih-Pin Chuu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

cpchuu@nhri.org.tw

Affiliations Institute of Cellular and System Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli County, Taiwan, Department of Life Sciences, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, PhD Program for Aging and Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Science, China Medical University, Taichung City, Taiwan, Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung City, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.