About the Authors
- Takahiko Toyonaga
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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kansai Medical University, Hirakata, Osaka, Japan
- Hiroshi Nakase
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* E-mail: hiropy_n@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
- Satoru Ueno
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Affiliation Department of Internal medicine, Takashima Municipal Hospital, Takashima, Shiga, Japan
- Minoru Matsuura
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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
- Takuya Yoshino
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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
- Yusuke Honzawa
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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
- Ayako Itou
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Affiliation Nutritional Science Institute, Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd, Zama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Kazuyoshi Namba
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Affiliation Nutritional Science Institute, Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd, Zama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Naoki Minami
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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
- Satoshi Yamada
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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
- Yorimitsu Koshikawa
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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
- Toshimitsu Uede
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Affiliation Department of Matrix Medicine, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
- Tsutomu Chiba
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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
- Kazuichi Okazaki
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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kansai Medical University, Hirakata, Osaka, Japan
Competing Interests
AI & KN are employees of Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HN TC KO. Performed the experiments: TT SU MM TY YH AI KN NM SY YK. Analyzed the data: TT SU HN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TU. Wrote the paper: TT HN.