About the Authors

Shinji Miwa

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan

Hideji Nishida

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan

Yoshikazu Tanzawa

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan

Munetomo Takata

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan

Akihiko Takeuchi

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan

Norio Yamamoto

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan

Toshiharu Shirai

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan

Katsuhiro Hayashi

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan

Hiroaki Kimura

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan

Kentaro Igarashi

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan

Eishiro Mizukoshi

Affiliation Department of Disease Control and Homeostasis, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan

Yasunari Nakamoto

Affiliation Department of Disease Control and Homeostasis, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan

Shuichi Kaneko

Affiliation Department of Disease Control and Homeostasis, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan

Hiroyuki Tsuchiya

tsuchi@med.kanazawa-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SM HN AT HT. Performed the experiments: SM HN YT MT. Analyzed the data: SM HN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NY TS KH HK KI EM YN SK HT. Wrote the paper: SM HN HT.