About the Authors

Shoichiro Otsuki

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Hirofumi Sawada

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, and Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Noriko Yodoya

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Tsutomu Shinohara

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan, Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Taichi Kato

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan, Department of Pediatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Hiroyuki Ohashi

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Erquan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Kyoko Imanaka-Yoshida

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Hideto Shimpo

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Kazuo Maruyama

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Yoshihiro Komada

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Yoshihide Mitani

ymitani@clin.medic.mie-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SO H. Sawada NY TS TK HO YK YM KIY EZ KM H. Shimpo. Performed the experiments: SO H. Sawada NY TS TK YM KIY EZ KM. Analyzed the data: SO H. Sawada NY TS TK HO YK YM KIY EZ KM H. Shimpo. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SO H. Sawada NY TS TK HO YK YM KIY EZ KM H. Shimpo. Wrote the paper: SO H. Sawada NY TS TK HO YK YM KIY EZ KM H. Shimpo.