About the Authors

Masashi Kato

katomasa@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Unit of Environmental Health Sciences, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan, Voluntary Body for International Health Care in Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan

Mayuko Y. Kumasaka

Affiliations Unit of Environmental Health Sciences, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan, Voluntary Body for International Health Care in Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan

Shoko Ohnuma

Affiliation Voluntary Body for International Health Care in Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan

Akio Furuta

Affiliation Unit of Environmental Health Sciences, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan

Yoko Kato

Affiliations Unit of Environmental Health Sciences, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan, Voluntary Body for International Health Care in Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan

Hossain U. Shekhar

Affiliation Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Michiyo Kojima

Affiliation Aichi Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Nagoya, Japan

Yasuko Koike

Affiliation Aichi Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Nagoya, Japan

Nguyen Dinh Thang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology, Vietnam National University of Science, Hanoi, Vietnam

Nobutaka Ohgami

Affiliations Unit of Environmental Health Sciences, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan, Voluntary Body for International Health Care in Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan

Thuy Bich Ly

Affiliation Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam

Xiaofang Jia

Affiliation Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan

Husna Yetti

Affiliation Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan

Hisao Naito

Affiliation Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan

Gaku Ichihara

Affiliation Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan

Ichiro Yajima

Affiliations Unit of Environmental Health Sciences, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan, Voluntary Body for International Health Care in Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: M. Kato AF. Performed the experiments: MYK YK M. Kojima Y. Koike. Analyzed the data: NO SO HN GI IY XJ HY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HUS NDT TBL. Wrote the paper: M. Kato.