About the Authors

Yasunori Enomoto

yasuyasuyasu29@yahoo.co.jp

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Yokohama, Japan

Eri Hagiwara

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Yokohama, Japan

Shigeru Komatsu

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Yokohama, Japan

Ryuichi Nishihira

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Yokohama, Japan

Tomohisa Baba

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Yokohama, Japan

Hideya Kitamura

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Yokohama, Japan

Akimasa Sekine

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Yokohama, Japan

Atsuhito Nakazawa

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Yokohama, Japan

Takashi Ogura

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Yokohama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YE EH TO. Performed the experiments: SK RN. Analyzed the data: TB. Wrote the paper: YE EH TO SK RN TB HK AS AN.