About the Authors

Yuichi Ozawa

u1.ozawa@sis.seirei.or.jp

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Respiratory Disease Center, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Hamamatsu, Japan

Takefumi Abe

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Respiratory Disease Center, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Hamamatsu, Japan

Minako Omae

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Respiratory Disease Center, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Hamamatsu, Japan

Takashi Matsui

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Respiratory Disease Center, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Hamamatsu, Japan

Masato Kato

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Respiratory Disease Center, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Hamamatsu, Japan

Hirotsugu Hasegawa

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Respiratory Disease Center, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Hamamatsu, Japan

Yasunori Enomoto

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Respiratory Disease Center, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Hamamatsu, Japan

Takeaki Ishihara

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Hamamatsu, Japan

Naoki Inui

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Kazunari Yamada

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Hamamatsu, Japan

Koshi Yokomura

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Respiratory Disease Center, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Hamamatsu, Japan

Takafumi Suda

Affiliation Second Division, Department of Internal Medicine, 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: YO. Performed the experiments: YO TA MO TM MK HH YE TI. Analyzed the data: YO TA. Wrote the paper: YO. Supervised the study: K. Yamada NI K. Yokomura TS.