About the Authors

Kisyo Mihara

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

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Kawasaki Municipal Kawasaki Hospital, Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan, Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Sachiko Matsuda

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

matsuda-sa@umin.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Yuki Nakamura

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Koichi Aiura

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kawasaki Municipal Kawasaki Hospital, Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Akihiro Kuwahata

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Shinichi Chikaki

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Masaki Sekino

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Moriaki Kusakabe

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Research Center for Food Safety, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Matrix Cell Research Institute, Inc., Ushiku, Ibaraki, Japan

Shunichi Suzuki

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Animal Sciences, Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Daiichiro Fuchimoto

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Animal Sciences, Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Akira Onishi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Reproduction, Department of Animal Science and Resources, College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan

Junko Kuramoto

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Kaori Kameyama

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Pathology, Keio University Hospital, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Osamu Itano

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, International University of Health and Welfare, Chiba, Japan

Hiroshi Yagi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Yuta Abe

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Minoru Kitago

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Masahiro Shinoda

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Yuko Kitagawa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests. Yuko Kitagawa has received grants from the Japan Agency for Medical Reserch and Development during the conduct of the study and grants from Daiichi Sankyo Company outside the submitted work. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.