About the Authors

Yusuke Inoue

Contributed equally to this work with: Yusuke Inoue, Naoki Inui

Affiliation Second Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Naoki Inui

Contributed equally to this work with: Yusuke Inoue, Naoki Inui

inui@hama-med.ac.jp

Affiliations Second Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan, Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Dai Hashimoto

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Second Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Noriyuki Enomoto

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Second Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Tomoyuki Fujisawa

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Second Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Yutaro Nakamura

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Second Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Takafumi Suda

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Second Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YI NI. Performed the experiments: YI NI DH NE TF YN TS. Analyzed the data: YI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YI NI. Wrote the paper: YI NI.