About the Authors

Keita Fukuyama

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Masataka Asagiri

Roles Supervision

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Japan, Department of Experimental Immunology, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Suita, Japan

Masahiro Sugimoto

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Research and Development Center for Minimally Invasive Therapies Health Promotion and Preemptive Medicine, Tokyo Medical University, Shinjuku, Japan

Hiraki Tsushima

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Medical Life Systems, Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Japan

Satoru Seo

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Kojiro Taura

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Shinji Uemoto

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Keiko Iwaisako

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

iwaisako@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Department of Experimental Immunology, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Suita, Japan, Department of Medical Life Systems, Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.