About the Authors

Shozo Yokoyama

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

yokoyama@wakayama-med.ac.jp

Affiliation Second Department of Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, School of Medicine, Wakayama, Japan

Akihiro Takeuchi

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Second Department of Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, School of Medicine, Wakayama, Japan

Shunsuke Yamaguchi

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Second Department of Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, School of Medicine, Wakayama, Japan

Yasuyuki Mitani

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Second Department of Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, School of Medicine, Wakayama, Japan

Takashi Watanabe

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Second Department of Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, School of Medicine, Wakayama, Japan

Kenji Matsuda

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Second Department of Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, School of Medicine, Wakayama, Japan

Tsukasa Hotta

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Second Department of Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, School of Medicine, Wakayama, Japan

John E. Shively

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Immunology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Hiroki Yamaue

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Second Department of Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, School of Medicine, Wakayama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.