TGF-β1 in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid can be used as a biological indicator of chronic pain in patients with osteoarthritis

• Yen-Chin Liu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Kaohsiung Medical University (KMU) Hospital, KMU, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital (NCKU), College of Medicine, NCKU, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Hung-Tsung Hsiao,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital (NCKU), College of Medicine, NCKU, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Jeffrey Chi-Fei Wang,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital (NCKU), College of Medicine, NCKU, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Tzu-Cheng Wen,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine, College of Medicine, NCKU, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Shiou-Lan Chen

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

  * E-mail: shioulan@kmu.edu.tw

  Affiliations Graduate Institute of Medicine & M.Sc. Program in Tropical Medicine, College of Medicine, KMU, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, KMU Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Drug Development and Value Creation Research Center, KMU, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, College of Professional Studies, National Pingtung University, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3995-0276

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