About the Authors

Kengo Shigehara

Affiliation Department of Surgery for Organ Function and Biological Regulation, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

Shigeki Yokomuro

Affiliation Department of Surgery for Organ Function and Biological Regulation, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

Osamu Ishibashi

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Anatomy, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

Yoshiaki Mizuguchi

Affiliation Department of Surgery for Organ Function and Biological Regulation, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

Yasuo Arima

Affiliation Department of Surgery for Organ Function and Biological Regulation, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

Yutaka Kawahigashi

Affiliation Department of Surgery for Organ Function and Biological Regulation, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

Tomohiro Kanda

Affiliation Department of Surgery for Organ Function and Biological Regulation, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

Ichiro Akagi

Affiliation Department of Surgery for Organ Function and Biological Regulation, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Tajiri

Affiliation Department of Surgery for Organ Function and Biological Regulation, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Yoshida

Affiliation Department of Surgery for Organ Function and Biological Regulation, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

Toshihiro Takizawa

t-takizawa@nms.ac.jp (TT); uchida@nms.ac.jp (EU)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Anatomy, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

Eiji Uchida

t-takizawa@nms.ac.jp (TT); uchida@nms.ac.jp (EU)

Affiliation Department of Surgery for Organ Function and Biological Regulation, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KS T. Takizawa EU YK. Performed the experiments: KS T. Takizawa OI TK IA. Analyzed the data: KS T. Tajiri YM SY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KS YA HY. Wrote the paper: KS T. Tajiri T. Takizawa YM.