About the Authors

Yasuyo Nakajima

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasuyo Nakajima, Masanobu Yamada

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Molecular Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan

Masanobu Yamada

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasuyo Nakajima, Masanobu Yamada

myamada@gunma-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Molecular Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan

Ryo Taguchi

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Molecular Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan

Nobuyuki Shibusawa

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Molecular Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan

Atsushi Ozawa

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Molecular Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan

Takuya Tomaru

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Molecular Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan

Koshi Hashimoto

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Molecular Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan

Tsugumichi Saito

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Molecular Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan

Takafumi Tsuchiya

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Molecular Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan

Shuichi Okada

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Molecular Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan

Tetsurou Satoh

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Molecular Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan

Masatomo Mori

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Molecular Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YN MY NS. Performed the experiments: YN MY RT NS. Analyzed the data: YN MY RT NS AO TT KH TS TT SO TS MM. Wrote the paper: YN MY.