About the Authors
- Atsushi Yamashita
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Contributed equally to this work with: Atsushi Yamashita, Yan Zhao
Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
- Yan Zhao
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Contributed equally to this work with: Atsushi Yamashita, Yan Zhao
Affiliation Department of Tracer Kinetics & Bioanalysis, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
- Yunosuke Matsuura
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Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
- Kazuaki Yamasaki
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Affiliation Department of Tracer Kinetics & Bioanalysis, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
- Sayaka Moriguchi-Goto
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
- Chihiro Sugita
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
- Takashi Iwakiri
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Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
- Nozomi Okuyama
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
- Chihiro Koshimoto
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Affiliation Frontier Science Research Center, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
- Keiichi Kawai
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Affiliations Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan, Biomedical Imaging Research Center, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan
- Nagara Tamaki
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Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
- Songji Zhao
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Affiliation Department of Tracer Kinetics & Bioanalysis, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
- Yuji Kuge
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¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Central Institute of Isotope Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
- Yujiro Asada
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* E-mail: yasada@med.miyazaki-u.ac.jp
¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AY YZ YM CK KK NT SZ YK YA. Performed the experiments: AY YZ YM KY SM TI CS NO SZ. Analyzed the data: AY YZ KY SM CS TI NO YK YA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZ YM KY. Wrote the paper: AY YZ SZ YK YA.