About the Authors

Jingyan Liang

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations School of Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China, Basic Medicine and Nosography, Nagano College of Nursing, Komagane, Japan

Dedong Kang

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Molecular Pathology, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan

Yingge Wang

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations School of Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China, Basic Medicine and Nosography, Nagano College of Nursing, Komagane, Japan

Ying Yu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Pathology, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan

Jianglin Fan

jianglin@yamanashi.ac.jp (JF); takashi@nagano-nurs.ac.jp (ET)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Pathology, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan

En Takashi

jianglin@yamanashi.ac.jp (JF); takashi@nagano-nurs.ac.jp (ET)

Affiliation Basic Medicine and Nosography, Nagano College of Nursing, Komagane, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL JF ET. Performed the experiments: JL DK YW YY JF ET. Analyzed the data: JL DK YW YY JF ET. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL DK YW YY JF ET. Wrote the paper: JL JF ET.