About the Authors
- Chie Sugimoto
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Contributed equally to this work with: Chie Sugimoto, Hiroshi Wakao
Affiliation Department of Hygiene & Cellular Preventive Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060–8638, Japan
- Takahiko Konno
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Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Tokeidai-Memorial Clinic, Sapporo, 060–0031, Japan
- Rika Wakao
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Affiliation Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Agency (PMDA), Kasumigaseki, Tokyo, 100–0013, Japan
- Hiroko Fujita
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Affiliation Department of Hygiene & Cellular Preventive Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060–8638, Japan
- Hiroyoshi Fujita
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Affiliation Department of Hygiene & Cellular Preventive Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060–8638, Japan
- Hiroshi Wakao
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Contributed equally to this work with: Chie Sugimoto, Hiroshi Wakao
* E-mail: hwakao@med.hokudai.ac.jp
Affiliation Department of Hygiene & Cellular Preventive Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060–8638, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TK Hiroko Fujita Hiroyoshi Fujita HW. Performed the experiments: CS TK HW. Analyzed the data: CS RW TK Hiroko Fujita Hiroyoshi Fujita HW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RW CS TK Hiroko Fujita Hiroyoshi Fujita HW. Wrote the paper: CS Hiroyoshi Fujita HW.