Funding for this research was provided by:
Cheng Hsin General Hospital Foundation (CY10606 and CY10708)
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (105-2320-B-010-036, 105-2811-B-010-022, 106-2320-B-002-057-MY3, 106-2320-B-002-056 and 106-2811-B-002-146)
Article History
Received: 25 May 2018
Accepted: 17 July 2018
First Online: 23 July 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
: The experiments conformed to the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources, eighth edition, 2011). All animal experiments were approved by the Animal Care and Utilization Committee of National Yang-Ming University.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.