About the Authors

Yoshimi Tanaka

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

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

Shingo Hatakeyama

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

shingoh@hirosaki-u.ac.jp

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

Toshikazu Tanaka

Roles Data curation

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

Hayato Yamamoto

Roles Data curation

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

Takuma Narita

Roles Data curation

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

Itsuto Hamano

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

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

Teppei Matsumoto

Roles Data curation

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

Osamu Soma

Roles Data curation

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

Teppei Okamoto

Roles Data curation

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

Yuki Tobisawa

Roles Data curation

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

Tohru Yoneyama

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

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

Takahiro Yoneyama

Roles Data curation

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

Yasuhiro Hashimoto

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

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

Takuya Koie

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

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

Ippei Takahashi

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Social Medicine, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Shigeyuki Nakaji

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Social Medicine, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Yuriko Terayama

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Urology, Oyokyo Kidney Research Institute, Hirosaki, Japan

Tomihisa Funyu

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Urology, Oyokyo Kidney Research Institute, Hirosaki, Japan

Chikara Ohyama

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

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.