Efficacy of nonviral gene transfer of human hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) against ischemic-reperfusion nerve injury in rats

• Toyokazu Tsuchihara,

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

  Current address: Tsuchihara Orthopaedic Clinic, Yokohama, Japan

  Affiliations Department of Orthopedic Surgery, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Japan, Department of Medicine, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand

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• Hitoshi Nukada ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hitoshi.nukada@med.toho-u.ac.jp

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand, Department of Exploratory Medicine on Nature, Life, and Man, Toho University Medical School, Chiba, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5264-309X

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• Kuniaki Nakanishi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Pathology, KKR-Tachikawa Hospital, Tachikawa, Japan

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Defense Medical College Hospital, Tokorozawa, Japan

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• Ryuichi Morishita,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Gene Therapy, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan

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• Masatoshi Amako,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Japan

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• Hiroshi Arino,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Ota Memorial Hospital, Ota, Japan

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Japan

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• Koichi Nemoto,

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

  Current address: Department of Orthopaedics, Eijinkai Iruma Heart Hospital, Iruma, Japan

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Japan

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• Kazuhiro Chiba

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Japan

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