About the Authors

Shinji Yamashita

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

shinjy@med.miyazaki-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Hideo Takeshima

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Fumitaka Matsumoto

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Kouji Yamasaki

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Tsuyoshi Fukushima

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Section of Oncopathology and Regenerative Biology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Hideyuki Sakoda

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Neurology, Respirology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Masamitsu Nakazato

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Neurology, Respirology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Kiyotaka Saito

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Asako Mizuguchi

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Takashi Watanabe

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Hajime Ohta

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Kiyotaka Yokogami

Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.