About the Authors
- Yasuteru Kondo
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* E-mail: yasuteru@ebony.plala.or.jp
Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai City, Miyagi, Japan
- Masashi Ninomiya
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Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai City, Miyagi, Japan
- Osamu Kimura
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Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai City, Miyagi, Japan
- Keigo Machida
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Ryo Funayama
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Affiliation Division of Cell Proliferation, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai City, Miyagi, Japan
- Takeshi Nagashima
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Affiliation Division of Cell Proliferation, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai City, Miyagi, Japan
- Koju Kobayashi
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Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai City, Miyagi, Japan
- Eiji Kakazu
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Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai City, Miyagi, Japan
- Takanobu Kato
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Affiliation Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
- Keiko Nakayama
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Affiliation Division of Cell Proliferation, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai City, Miyagi, Japan
- Michael M. C. Lai
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Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
- Tooru Shimosegawa
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Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai City, Miyagi, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: YK MN OK TK ML TS. Performed the experiments: YK MN OK KM RF TN KK EK KN. Analyzed the data: YK MN OK TN KN ML TS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KM. Wrote the paper: YK MN TN ML TS.