About the Authors

Shinji Kobayashi

Contributed equally to this work with: Shinji Kobayashi, Takanori Takebe

Affiliations Department of Regenerative Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Kanagawa Children's Medical Center, Minami-ku, Yokohama, Japan

Takanori Takebe

Contributed equally to this work with: Shinji Kobayashi, Takanori Takebe

Affiliation Department of Regenerative Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Yun-Wen Zheng

Affiliation Department of Regenerative Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Mitsuru Mizuno

Affiliation Department of Regenerative Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Yuichiro Yabuki

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Jiro Maegawa

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Hideki Taniguchi

zoukisai@yokohama-cu.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Regenerative Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Advanced Medical Research Center, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK TT HT. Performed the experiments: SK TT. Analyzed the data: SK TT HT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Y-WZ MM YY JM. Wrote the paper: SK TT.