About the Authors

Tomohito Sato

Affiliation Military Medicine Research Unit, Test and Evaluation Command, Ground Self-Defense Force, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

Manabu Kinoshita

manabu@ndmc.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan

Tetsuo Yamamoto

Affiliation Military Medicine Research Unit, Test and Evaluation Command, Ground Self-Defense Force, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

Masataka Ito

Affiliation Department of Developmental Anatomy and Regenerative Biology, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan

Takafumi Nishida

Affiliation Military Medicine Research Unit, Test and Evaluation Command, Ground Self-Defense Force, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

Masaru Takeuchi

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan

Daizoh Saitoh

Affiliation Division of Traumatology, Research Institute, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan

Shuhji Seki

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan

Yasuo Mukai

Affiliation Military Medicine Research Unit, Test and Evaluation Command, Ground Self-Defense Force, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TS MK TY MI TN. Performed the experiments: TS MK TY MI TN. Analyzed the data: MT DS SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TS MK MT DS YM. Wrote the paper: TS MK. MK.