About the Authors

Kenya Kamimura

kenya–k@med.niigata–u.ac.jp (KK); dliu@uga.edu (DL)

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan

Tsutomu Kanefuji

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan

Takeshi Yokoo

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan

Hiroyuki Abe

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan

Takeshi Suda

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan

Yuji Kobayashi

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan

Guisheng Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Yutaka Aoyagi

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan

Dexi Liu

kenya–k@med.niigata–u.ac.jp (KK); dliu@uga.edu (DL)

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KK DL. Performed the experiments: KK TK TY HA TS. Analyzed the data: KK HA YK GZ DL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GZ HA YA. Wrote the paper: KK DL YA.