About the Authors
- Bi-Juan Wang
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Roles Investigation, Visualization
Affiliation Institute of Cellular and System Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli County, Taiwan
- Kai-Hsiung Chang
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Roles Methodology, Resources
Affiliation Institute of Cellular and System Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli County, Taiwan
- Hui-Chin Wen
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Roles Investigation, Methodology
Affiliation Institute of Cellular and System Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli County, Taiwan
- Chien-Chih Yeh
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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
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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
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Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
- Shu-Pin Huang
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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
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Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Chih-Pin Chuu
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: 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.