About the Authors

Naoyuki Kawagoe

Contributed equally to this work with: Naoyuki Kawagoe, Osamu Kano, Masaaki Takayanagi, Yoshihisa Urita

naoyuki.kawagoe@med.toho-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of General Medicine and Emergency Care, School of Medicine, Toho University, Omori Hospital, Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of General Medicine and Emergency Care, Graduate School of Medicine, Toho University, Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Osamu Kano

Contributed equally to this work with: Naoyuki Kawagoe, Osamu Kano, Masaaki Takayanagi, Yoshihisa Urita

Affiliation Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Toho University, Omori Hospital, Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Sho Kijima

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of General Medicine and Emergency Care, School of Medicine, Toho University, Omori Hospital, Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of General Medicine and Emergency Care, Graduate School of Medicine, Toho University, Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Hideki Tanaka

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of General Medicine and Emergency Care, School of Medicine, Toho University, Omori Hospital, Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of General Medicine and Emergency Care, Graduate School of Medicine, Toho University, Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Masaaki Takayanagi

Contributed equally to this work with: Naoyuki Kawagoe, Osamu Kano, Masaaki Takayanagi, Yoshihisa Urita

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Toho University, Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Yoshihisa Urita

Contributed equally to this work with: Naoyuki Kawagoe, Osamu Kano, Masaaki Takayanagi, Yoshihisa Urita

Affiliation Department of General Medicine and Emergency Care, School of Medicine, Toho University, Omori Hospital, Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NK OK YU. Performed the experiments: NK OK SK YU. Analyzed the data: NK HT YU. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NK MT YU. Wrote the paper: NK YU.