About the Authors
- Kazuhiko Shien
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kazuhiko Shien, Norimitsu Tanaka
Affiliations Department of Clinical Genomic Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
- Norimitsu Tanaka
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kazuhiko Shien, Norimitsu Tanaka
Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
- Masami Watanabe
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Affiliations Department of Urology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan, Center for Gene and Cell Therapy, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama, Japan, Innovation Center Okayama for Nanobio-Targeted Therapy (ICONT), Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
- Junichi Soh
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Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
- Masakiyo Sakaguchi
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Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
- Keitaro Matsuo
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Kyusyu University Faculty of Medical Science, Fukuoka, Japan
- Hiromasa Yamamoto
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Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
- Masashi Furukawa
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Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
- Hiroaki Asano
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Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
- Kazunori Tsukuda
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Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
- Yasutomo Nasu
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Affiliation Department of Urology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
- Nam-Ho Huh
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Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
- Shinichiro Miyoshi
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Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
- Hiromi Kumon
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Affiliations Department of Urology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan, Innovation Center Okayama for Nanobio-Targeted Therapy (ICONT), Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
- Shinichi Toyooka
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* E-mail: toyooka@md.okayama-u.ac.jp
Affiliations Department of Clinical Genomic Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KS NT MW MS HY MF HA KT YN NHH SM HK ST. Performed the experiments: KS NT. Analyzed the data: KS NT JS KM HY ST. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KS NT MW MS KM YN NHH HK ST. Wrote the paper: KS NT JS HY ST.