About the Authors

Hayato Terayama

Contributed equally to this work with: Hayato Terayama, Hajime Yamazaki

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara-shi, Kanagawa, Japan

Hajime Yamazaki

Contributed equally to this work with: Hayato Terayama, Hajime Yamazaki

y-hajime@is.icc.u-tokai.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara-shi, Kanagawa, Japan

Teruhisa Kanazawa

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara-shi, Kanagawa, Japan

Kaori Suyama

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara-shi, Kanagawa, Japan

Osamu Tanaka

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara-shi, Kanagawa, Japan

Makoto Sawada

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara-shi, Kanagawa, Japan

Miho Ito

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara-shi, Kanagawa, Japan

Kenji Ito

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara-shi, Kanagawa, Japan

Tadashi Akamatsu

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara-shi, Kanagawa, Japan

Ritsuko Masuda

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara-shi, Kanagawa, Japan

Toshiyasu Suzuki

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara-shi, Kanagawa, Japan

Kou Sakabe

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara-shi, Kanagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HT HY. Performed the experiments: HT HY MS. Analyzed the data: K. Suyama OT TA TK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HT HY MI KI. Wrote the paper: HT HY K. Sakabe. Critical revision of the article for important intellectual content: HY RM TS.