About the Authors

Kinya Okamoto

okamotka@grape.med.tottori-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Second Department of Internal Medicine, Tottori University School of Medicine, Yonago, Tottori, Japan

Kenichi Miyoshi

Affiliation Second Department of Internal Medicine, Tottori University School of Medicine, Yonago, Tottori, Japan

Yoshikazu Murawaki

Affiliation Second Department of Internal Medicine, Tottori University School of Medicine, Yonago, Tottori, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KO YM. Performed the experiments: KO KM. Analyzed the data: KO KM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KO KM. Wrote the paper: KO.