About the Authors

Yuki Yasumoto

Affiliations Department of Organ Anatomy, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Japan, Department of Organ Anatomy, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Hirofumi Miyazaki

Affiliations Department of Organ Anatomy, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Japan, Department of Organ Anatomy, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Linda Koshy Vaidyan

Affiliation Department of Organ Anatomy, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Japan

Yoshiteru Kagawa

Affiliations Department of Organ Anatomy, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Japan, Department of Organ Anatomy, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Majid Ebrahimi

Affiliations Department of Organ Anatomy, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Japan, Department of Organ Anatomy, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Yui Yamamoto

Affiliation Department of Organ Anatomy, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Japan

Masaki Ogata

Affiliation Department of Organ Anatomy, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Yu Katsuyama

Affiliation Department of Organ Anatomy, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Hirokazu Sadahiro

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

Michiyasu Suzuki

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

Yuji Owada

owada@med.tohoku.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Organ Anatomy, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Japan, Department of Organ Anatomy, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Y. Yasumoto MS YO. Performed the experiments: Y. Yasumoto HM YK. Analyzed the data: Y. Yasumoto LKV MO YK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Y. Yasumoto HS ME Y. Yamamoto. Wrote the paper: Y. Yasumoto YO.