About the Authors

Satoshi Nishiwaki

Affiliations Department of Hematology and Oncology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japanese Red Cross Nagoya First Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Department of Hematology, Japanese Red Cross Nagoya First Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Takayuki Nakayama

tnaka@aichi-med-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Transfusion Medicine, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan

Makoto Murata

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Tetsuya Nishida

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Seitaro Terakura

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Shigeki Saito

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Tomonori Kato

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Hiroki Mizuno

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Nobuhiko Imahashi

Affiliations Department of Hematology and Oncology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Department of Hematology, Japanese Red Cross Nagoya First Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Aika Seto

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Japanese Red Cross Nagoya First Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Yukiyasu Ozawa

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Japanese Red Cross Nagoya First Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Koichi Miyamura

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Japanese Red Cross Nagoya First Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Masafumi Ito

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Japanese Red Cross Nagoya First Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Kyosuke Takeshita

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Hidefumi Kato

Affiliation Department of Transfusion Medicine, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan

Shinya Toyokuni

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Biological Responses, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Keisuke Nagao

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjyuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Ryuzo Ueda

Affiliation Department of Tumor Immunology, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan

Tomoki Naoe

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SN T. Nakayama MM T. Naoe. Performed the experiments: SN T. Nakayama MM S. Terakura SS TK HM. Analyzed the data: SN T. Nakayama MM S. Terakura SS HM T. Naoe. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS YO MI S. Toyokuni KN. Wrote the paper: SN T. Nakayama MM T. Nishida S. Terakura SS KT HM NI KM HK MI RU T. Naoe.