About the Authors
- Takao Watanabe
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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime, Japan
- Yoichi Hiasa
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* E-mail: hiasa@m.ehime-u.ac.jp
Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime, Japan
- Yoshio Tokumoto
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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime, Japan
- Masashi Hirooka
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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime, Japan
- Masanori Abe
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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime, Japan
- Yoshio Ikeda
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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime, Japan
- Bunzo Matsuura
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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime, Japan
- Raymond T. Chung
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Affiliation Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Morikazu Onji
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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TW YH MO. Performed the experiments: TW YH YT. Analyzed the data: TW YH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TW YH YT MH. Wrote the paper: TW YH RTC. Manuscript editing: TW YH YT MH MA YI BM RTC MO.