About the Authors

Kanako Chihara

Contributed equally to this work with: Kanako Chihara, Kosuke Okada

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

Affiliations Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, Japan, Doctoral Program in Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, Japan

Kosuke Okada

Contributed equally to this work with: Kanako Chihara, Kosuke Okada

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Medical Sciences, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, Japan, Department of Gastroenterology, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, Japan

Fumihiko Uchida

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, Japan

Ikuru Miura

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Sports and Health Science, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka, Japan

Shoichi Komine

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Faculty of Human Care, Teikyo Heisei University, Toshima-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Eiji Warabi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, Japan

Takako Takayama

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, Japan

Hideo Suzuki

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, Japan

Takashi Matsuzaka

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Transborder Medical Research Center, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, Japan

Naomi Ishibashi-Kanno

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, Japan

Kenji Yamagata

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, Japan

Toru Yanagawa

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, Japan

Hiroki Bukawa

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

shodaj@md.tsukuba.ac.jp (JS); bukawah-cuh@umin.ac.jp (HB)

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, Japan

Junichi Shoda

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

shodaj@md.tsukuba.ac.jp (JS); bukawah-cuh@umin.ac.jp (HB)

Affiliation Division of Medical Sciences, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.