Chen, Chun-Yu
Chen, Shih-Pin http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3492-9902
Fuh, Jong-Ling
Lirng, Jiing-Feng
Chang, Feng-Chi
Wang, Yen-Feng
Wang, Shuu-Jiun
Funding for this research was provided by:
Brain Research Center, National Yang-Ming University (The Featured Areas Research Center Program within the framework of the Higher Education Sprout Project by the Ministry of Education (MOE))
Taipei Veterans General Hospital (V100E6-001, VGHUST105-G7-1-1, V105C-127, V105E9-001-MY2-1, VTA105-V1-1-1, V106C-117)
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST 106-2314-B-010 -019 -MY2, MOST 107-2321-B-010 -001 -, and MOST 104-2314-B-010 -071 -MY3)
Academia Sinica (IBMS-CRC103-P04)
Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW 103-TDU-B-211-113-003, MOHW 104-TDU-B-211-113-003, MOHW 105-TDU-B-211-113-003)
Article History
Received: 11 July 2018
Accepted: 13 August 2018
First Online: 30 August 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol was approved by the Taipei Veterans General Hospital Institutional Review Board. All participants provided written informed consent before entering the study. All clinical investigations were conducted according to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. The corresponding author had full access to all the data in the study and had final responsibility for the decision to submit for publication.
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