About the Authors

Makiko Sasaki

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Science, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Mamoru Tanaka

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

mtanaka@med.nagoya-cu.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Science, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Hiroshi Ichikawa

Roles Investigation, Software

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Science, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Taketo Suzuki

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Science, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Hirotada Nishie

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Science, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Keiji Ozeki

Roles Validation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Science, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Takaya Shimura

Roles Validation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Science, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Eiji Kubota

Roles Validation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Science, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Satoshi Tanida

Roles Validation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Science, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Hiromi Kataoka

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Science, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Competing Interests

NO authors have competing interests