About the Authors

Hiroki Tanaka

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

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

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Masaki Sano

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Hirona Kugo

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kinki University, Nara, Japan

Tatsuya Moriyama

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kinki University, Nara, Japan

Hiroyuki Konno

Affiliation Second Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Mitsutoshi Setou

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

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.