About the Authors

Aya Ishii

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

Tokuhiro Kimura

tkimura@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp (TK); ikedae@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp (EI)

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

Hirokazu Sadahiro

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

Hiroo Kawano

Affiliation Department of Basic Laboratory Sciences, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

Keiyo Takubo

Affiliation Research Institute National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Michiyasu Suzuki

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

Eiji Ikeda

tkimura@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp (TK); ikedae@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp (EI)

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TK KT EI. Performed the experiments: AI TK. Analyzed the data: AI TK HS HK KT MS EI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HS MS EI. Wrote the paper: AI TK EI.