About the Authors

Takuya Sakamoto

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 2–2 (E2), Suita, Osaka 565–0871, Japan

Shogo Kobayashi

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 2–2 (E2), Suita, Osaka 565–0871, Japan, Department of Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular diseases, Nakamichi 1-3-3, Higashinari-ku, Osaka, Osaka 537–8511, Japan

Daisaku Yamada

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 2–2 (E2), Suita, Osaka 565–0871, Japan

Hiroaki Nagano

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 2–2 (E2), Suita, Osaka 565–0871, Japan

Akira Tomokuni

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 2–2 (E2), Suita, Osaka 565–0871, Japan

Yoshito Tomimaru

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 2–2 (E2), Suita, Osaka 565–0871, Japan

Takehiro Noda

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 2–2 (E2), Suita, Osaka 565–0871, Japan

Kunihito Gotoh

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 2–2 (E2), Suita, Osaka 565–0871, Japan

Tadafumi Asaoka

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 2–2 (E2), Suita, Osaka 565–0871, Japan

Hiroshi Wada

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 2–2 (E2), Suita, Osaka 565–0871, Japan

Koichi Kawamoto

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 2–2 (E2), Suita, Osaka 565–0871, Japan

Shigeru Marubashi

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 2–2 (E2), Suita, Osaka 565–0871, Japan

Hidetoshi Eguchi

heguchi@gesurg.med.osaka-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 2–2 (E2), Suita, Osaka 565–0871, Japan

Yuichiro Doki

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 2–2 (E2), Suita, Osaka 565–0871, Japan

Masaki Mori

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 2–2 (E2), Suita, Osaka 565–0871, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM YD HE HN SK. Performed the experiments: TS DY AT YT TN KG TA HW KK SM. Analyzed the data: TS SK DY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DY HW SM. Wrote the paper: TS SK DY.