About the Authors
- Ryuichi Hotta
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ryuichi Hotta, Masahiro Ohira
Affiliation Division of Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America
- Masahiro Ohira
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ryuichi Hotta, Masahiro Ohira
Affiliations Division of Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America, Division of Frontier Medical Science, Programs for Biomedical Research, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Department of Surgery, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
- Toshiharu Matsuura
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Affiliation Division of Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America
- Izumi Muraoka
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Affiliation Division of Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America
- Panagiotis Tryphonopoulos
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Affiliation Division of Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America
- Ji Fan
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Affiliation Division of Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America
- Akin Tekin
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Affiliation Division of Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America
- Gennaro Selvaggi
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Affiliation Division of Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America
- David Levi
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Affiliation Division of Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America
- Phillip Ruiz
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Affiliation Department of Pathology and Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America
- Camillo Ricordi
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Affiliation Cell Transplant Center, Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America
- Rodrigo Vianna
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Affiliation Division of Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America
- Hideki Ohdan
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Affiliation Division of Frontier Medical Science, Programs for Biomedical Research, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Department of Surgery, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
- Herman Waldmann
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Affiliation Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford University, Oxford, England, United Kingdom
- Andreas G. Tzakis
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Affiliation Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, United States of America
- Seigo Nishida
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* E-mail: snishida@med.miami.edu
Affiliation Division of Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: RH MO HO AGT HW SN. Formal analysis: RH MO SN. Funding acquisition: SN MO. Investigation: RH MO TM IM PT JF AT GS DL PR CR RV AGT HW SN. Methodology: RH MO SN. Writing – original draft: RH MO SN. Writing – review & editing: RH MO SN.