About the Authors

Yuki Yokoi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Urology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Department of Regenerative Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Yuki Yamashita

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Regenerative Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Koichi Uemura

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Urology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Department of Regenerative Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Hisakazu Odaka

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Urology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Department of Regenerative Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Kazuhide Makiyama

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Urology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Takehiko Ogawa

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Regenerative Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Takuya Sato

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tsato@yokohama-cu.ac.jp (TS); komeyam@yokohama-cu.ac.jp (MK)

Affiliation Department of Regenerative Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Mitsuru Komeya

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

tsato@yokohama-cu.ac.jp (TS); komeyam@yokohama-cu.ac.jp (MK)

Affiliation Department of Urology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors declare that no competing interests exist.