About the Authors

Shingo Hatakeyama

shingorilla2@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Urology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Takuya Koie

Affiliation Department of Urology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Takuma Narita

Affiliation Department of Urology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Shogo Hosogoe

Affiliation Department of Urology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Hayato Yamamoto

Affiliation Department of Urology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Yuki Tobisawa

Affiliation Department of Urology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Tohru Yoneyama

Affiliation Department of Advanced Transplant and Regenerative Medicine, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Takahiro Yoneyama

Affiliation Department of Urology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Yasuhiro Hashimoto

Affiliation Department of Advanced Transplant and Regenerative Medicine, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Chikara Ohyama

Affiliations Department of Urology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan, Department of Advanced Transplant and Regenerative Medicine, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: S. Hatakeyama TK CO. Performed the experiments: S. Hatakeyama TK TN S. Hosogoe HY YT Takahiro Yoneyama Tohru Yoneyama YH CO. Analyzed the data: S. Hatakeyama TK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: S. Hatakeyama TK TN S. Hosogoe HY YT Tohru Yoneyama Takahiro Yoneyama YH CO. Wrote the paper: S. Hatakeyama CO.