Association of visceral fat and plasmacytoid dendritic cell-derived interferon alpha with SARS-CoV-2 infection

• Naoki Ozato ,

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

  ¶‡ These two authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Human Health Care Products Research Laboratories, Kao Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2038-4705

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• Shota Hori ,

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

  ¶‡ These two authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Institute of Health Sciences, Kirin Holdings, Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan

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• Nobuyuki Miyai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Graduate School of Health and Nursing Science, Wakayama Medical University, Japan

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• Hideto Takase,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Human Health Care Products Research Laboratories, Kao Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

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• Ryohei Tsuji,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Institute of Health Sciences, Kirin Holdings, Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan

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• Noriko Osaki,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliation Human Health Care Products Research Laboratories, Kao Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

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• Daisuke Fujiwara,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliation Institute of Health Sciences, Kirin Holdings, Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan

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• Mikio Arita

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  * E-mail: oozato.naoki@kao.com, Shota_Hori@kirin.co.jp

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Sumiya Rehabilitation Hospital, Wakayama, Japan

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