About the Authors

Yutaka Ogata

yogata@med.kurume-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kurume University Medical Center, Kurume, Japan

Keiko Matono

Affiliation Departments of Surgery, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan

Hideaki Tsuda

Affiliation Kurume Daiichi Social Insurance Hospital, Kurume, Japan

Masataka Ushijima

Affiliation Departments of Surgery, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan

Shinji Uchida

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kurume University Medical Center, Kurume, Japan

Yoshito Akagi

Affiliation Departments of Surgery, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan

Kazuo Shirouzu

Affiliation Departments of Surgery, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YO HT. Performed the experiments: YO KM MU SU YA KS. Analyzed the data: YO KM MU HT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YO HT KS. Wrote the paper: YO HT.