About the Authors

Kozo Kagawa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan

Seidai Sato

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan

Kazuya Koyama

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan

Takeshi Imakura

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan

Kojin Murakami

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan

Yuya Yamashita

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan

Nobuhito Naito

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan

Hirohisa Ogawa

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan

Hiroshi Kawano

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan

Yasuhiko Nishioka

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

yasuhiko@tokushima-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.