About the Authors

Toshiyuki Tsurumoto

tsurumot@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Macroscopic Anatomy, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Kazunobu Saiki

Affiliation Department of Macroscopic Anatomy, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Keishi Okamoto

Affiliation Department of Macroscopic Anatomy, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Takeshi Imamura

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic surgery, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Junichiro Maeda

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic surgery, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Yoshitaka Manabe

Affiliation Department of Oral Anatomy and Dental Anthropology, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Tetsuaki Wakebe

Affiliation Department of Macroscopic Anatomy, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TT TW. Performed the experiments: TT KO JM. Analyzed the data: KS YM TT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KS TI TT. Wrote the paper: TT.