About the Authors

Motoo Araki

motoosh@md.okayama-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Urology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Shinya Uehara

Affiliation Department of Urology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Katsumi Sasaki

Affiliation Department of Urology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Koichi Monden

Affiliation Department of Urology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Masaya Tsugawa

Affiliation Department of Urology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Toyohiko Watanabe

Affiliation Department of Urology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Manoji Monga

Affiliation Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Yasutomo Nasu

Affiliation Department of Urology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Hiromi Kumon

Affiliation Department of Urology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA SU KS KM MT TW YN HK. Performed the experiments: MA SU KS KM MT TW YN HK. Analyzed the data: MA SU KS KM MT TW HK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MA SU KS KM MT TW YN HK. Wrote the paper: MA MM HK.