*Department of Emergency Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan;
†Department of Physiology, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan;
‡Department of Radiology, Kuang Tien General Hospital, Shalu, Taichung, Taiwan;
§Department of Anatomy, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan;
¶Department of Anesthesiology, Kuang Tien General Hospital, Shalu, Taichung, Taiwan;
‖Department of Anesthesiology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; and
**Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Correspondence: Yuk-Man Leung, PhD, Department of Physiology, China Medical University, 91 Hsueh Shi Road, Taichung 40402, Taiwan (e-mail: [email protected]).
C.-M. Chuang, Y. -M. Leung, and K. -L. Wong thank China Medical University, Taiwan, for providing fundings (DMR-109-062; DMR-109-093; DMR-110-084; and CMU109-S-21). P. -S. Yen thanks Kuang Tien General Hospital for support (Kuang 109-06).
The authors report no conflicts of interest.
C. -M. Chuang, C. -Y. Chen, and P. -S. Yen contributed equally as first authors.
P. Chan and Y. -M. Leung contributed equally as corresponding authors
No humans or animals were used in this study; only cell lines were used in this work, and therefore, ethical approval is not required.
