About the Authors

Yoshiki Murakami

m2079633@med.osaka-cu.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan

Hidenori Toyoda

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Ogaki Municipal Hospital, Ogaki, Japan

Toshihito Tanahashi

Affiliation Department of Medical Pharmaceutics, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Kobe, Japan

Junko Tanaka

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Hiroshima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima, Japan

Takashi Kumada

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Ogaki Municipal Hospital, Ogaki, Japan

Yusuke Yoshioka

Affiliation Division of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan

Nobuyoshi Kosaka

Affiliation Division of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan

Takahiro Ochiya

Affiliation Division of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan

Y-h Taguchi

Affiliation Department of Physics, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YM NK TO YT. Performed the experiments: YM HT TT YY NK. Analyzed the data: TT YT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HT JT TK. Wrote the paper: YM NK TO.