About the Authors

Osamu Ichii

ichi-o@vetmed.hokudai.ac.jp

Affiliations Laboratory of Anatomy, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan, Kidney Disease Section, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Saori Otsuka-Kanazawa

Affiliation Laboratory of Anatomy, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan

Teppei Nakamura

Affiliations Laboratory of Anatomy, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan, Section of Biological Safety Research, Chitose Laboratory, Japan Food Research Laboratories, Chitose, Japan

Masaaki Ueno

Affiliation Section of Biological Safety Research, Chitose Laboratory, Japan Food Research Laboratories, Chitose, Japan

Yasuhiro Kon

Affiliation Laboratory of Anatomy, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan

Weiping Chen

Affiliation Microarray Core Facility, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Avi Z. Rosenberg

Affiliation Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jeffrey B. Kopp

Affiliation Kidney Disease Section, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OI JBK. Performed the experiments: OI. Analyzed the data: AZR MU WC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OI SO TN AZR MU WC JBK. Wrote the paper: OI AZR YK JBK.