About the Authors

Mitsuru Mizuno

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

mizuno.arm@tmd.ac.jp

Affiliation Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Institute of Science Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Daisuke Suda

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Biozone Medical Co., Ltd., Fujisawa-shi, Kanagawa, Japan

Chima Matsumura

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Biozone Medical Co., Ltd., Fujisawa-shi, Kanagawa, Japan

Ichiro Sekiya

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Institute of Science Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

Mitsuru Mizuno reports financial support was provided by BIOZONE MEDICAL Co., Ltd. The funders, BIOZONE MEDICAL Co., Ltd., were involved in the study through the participation of their employee, Daisuke Suda and Chima Matsumura, as a co-author. They contributed to experiment, resourse, and manuscript revision in the study. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.