About the Authors

Eri Asano

Affiliation Division of Cancer Biology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Masao Maeda

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Hitoki Hasegawa

Affiliation Division of Cancer Biology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Satoko Ito

Affiliation Division of Cancer Biology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Toshinori Hyodo

Affiliation Division of Cancer Biology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Hong Yuan

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Masahide Takahashi

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Michinari Hamaguchi

Affiliation Division of Cancer Biology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Takeshi Senga

tsenga@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Division of Cancer Biology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EA SI TH HY MT MH TS. Performed the experiments: EA MM HH. Analyzed the data: EA MM TS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EA MM HH TH. Wrote the paper: SI MT MH TS.