About the Authors

Tsuyoshi Oguma

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Toyohiro Hirai

t_hirai@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Akio Niimi

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology and Immunology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan

Hisako Matsumoto

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Shigeo Muro

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Michio Shigematsu

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sumitomo Hospital, Osaka, Japan

Takashi Nishimura

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kyoto-Katsura Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

Yoshiro Kubo

Affiliation Department of Respirology, Kansai Electric Power Hospital, Osaka, Japan

Michiaki Mishima

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TO TH MM. Performed the experiments: TO TH AN HM SM MS TN YK. Analyzed the data: TO TH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TO TH AN HM SM. Wrote the paper: TO TH.