About the Authors

Kantoku Nagakawa

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

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

Masaaki Hidaka

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

Takanobu Hara

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

Hajime Matsushima

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

Hajime Imamura

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

Takayuki Tanaka

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

Tomohiko Adachi

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

Akihiko Soyama

Roles Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

Kengo Kanetaka

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

Susumu Eguchi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

sueguchi@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.