About the Authors

Yuen-Shan Ho

Affiliation Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Anatomy, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Xifei Yang

Affiliation Shenzhen Centre of Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, China

Sze-Chun Yeung

Affiliation Department of Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Kin Chiu

Affiliation Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Anatomy, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Chi-Fai Lau

Affiliation Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Anatomy, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Andrea Wing-Ting Tsang

Affiliation Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Anatomy, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Judith Choi-Wo Mak

rccchang@hku.hk (RC); judithmak@hku.hk (JM)

Affiliations Research Centre of Heart, Brain, Hormone and Healthy Aging, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Raymond Chuen-Chung Chang

rccchang@hku.hk (RC); judithmak@hku.hk (JM)

Affiliations Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Anatomy, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Research Centre of Heart, Brain, Hormone and Healthy Aging, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JCWM RCCC. Performed the experiments: YSH XY CFL KC AWTT. Analyzed the data: YSH CFL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SCY JCWM. Wrote the paper: YSH RCCC.