About the Authors
- Susumu Hamada-Tsutsumi
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¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Virology and Liver Unit, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
- Etsuko Iio
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¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.
Affiliations Department of Virology and Liver Unit, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan, Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
- Tsunamasa Watanabe
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¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Virology and Liver Unit, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
- Shuko Murakami
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¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Virology and Liver Unit, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
- Masanori Isogawa
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Affiliation Department of Virology and Liver Unit, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
- Sayuki Iijima
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Affiliation Department of Virology and Liver Unit, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
- Takako Inoue
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Affiliation Department of Virology and Liver Unit, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
- Kayoko Matsunami
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Affiliations Department of Virology and Liver Unit, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan, Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
- Kazuto Tajiri
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Affiliations The Third Department of Internal Medicine, Graduate School of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan, The Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
- Tatsuhiko Ozawa
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Affiliation The Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
- Hiroyuki Kishi
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Affiliation The Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
- Atsushi Muraguchi
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Affiliation The Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
- Takashi Joh
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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
- Yasuhito Tanaka
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* E-mail: ytanaka@med.nagoya-cu.ac.jp
Affiliation Department of Virology and Liver Unit, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
Competing Interests
Yasuhito Tanaka: Research funding from Chugai harmaceutical and Bristol-Myers Squibb, and honoraria from Chugai Pharmaceutical, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and GlaxoSmithKline. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SHT EI SM KT TJ YT. Performed the experiments: SHT EI TW SM KM KT TO. Analyzed the data: SHT EI TW SM MI SI TI KM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HK AM. Wrote the paper: SHT EI TW YT.