About the Authors

Tomohiro Matsuo

Affiliation Department of Urology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Yasuyoshi Miyata

int.doc.miya@m3.dion.ne.jp

Affiliation Department of Urology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Akihiro Asai

Affiliation Department of Urology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Yuji Sagara

Affiliation Department of Urology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Bungo Furusato

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Junya Fukuoka

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Hideki Sakai

Affiliation Department of Urology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YM YS. Data curation: TM YS AA. Formal analysis: YM. Investigation: BF. Methodology: YS. Project administration: YM. Resources: YM. Software: TM YM. Supervision: JF HS. Validation: YM. Visualization: YM. Writing – original draft: TM YM T. Writing – review & editing: HS.