About the Authors
- Hiroki Tanaka
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hiroki Tanaka, Nobuhiro Zaima
Affiliations Division of Vascular Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan, Second Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
- Nobuhiro Zaima
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hiroki Tanaka, Nobuhiro Zaima
Affiliations Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan, Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kinki University, Nara, Japan
- Takeshi Sasaki
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Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
- Masaki Sano
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Affiliations Division of Vascular Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan, Second Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
- Naoto Yamamoto
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Affiliations Division of Vascular Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan, Second Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
- Takaaki Saito
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Affiliations Division of Vascular Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan, Second Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
- Kazunori Inuzuka
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Affiliations Division of Vascular Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan, Second Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
- Takahiro Hayasaka
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Affiliations Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan, Health Innovation & Technology Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
- Naoko Goto-Inoue
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Affiliations Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan, Department of Health Promotion Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
- Yuki Sugiura
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Affiliations Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan, Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
- Kohji Sato
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Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
- Hirona Kugo
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Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kinki University, Nara, Japan
- Tatsuya Moriyama
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Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kinki University, Nara, Japan
- Hiroyuki Konno
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Affiliation Second Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
- Mitsutoshi Setou
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* E-mail: unno@hama-med.ac.jp (NU); setou@hama-med.ac.jp (M. Setou)
Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
- Naoki Unno
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* E-mail: unno@hama-med.ac.jp (NU); setou@hama-med.ac.jp (M. Setou)
Affiliations Division of Vascular Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan, Second Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HT NZ M. Setou NU. Performed the experiments: T. Saito H. Kugo M. Sano. Analyzed the data: YS TH NGI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TM KS H. Konno. Wrote the paper: TM KS H. Konno YS TH NGI T. Saito H. Kugo M. Sano HT NZ M. Setou NU. Attending physicians who surgically repaired the aneurysms: KI NY NU.