About the Authors

Kazunori Namiki

Contributed equally to this work with: Kazunori Namiki, Steve Goodison

Affiliation Department of Urology, The University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Steve Goodison

Contributed equally to this work with: Kazunori Namiki, Steve Goodison

Affiliation Department of Surgery, The University of Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America

Stacy Porvasnik

Affiliation Department of Urology, The University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Robert W. Allan

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Kenneth A. Iczkowski

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Cydney Urbanek

Affiliation Department of Urology, The University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Leticia Reyes

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathology, The University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Noboru Sakamoto

Affiliation Department of Urology, The University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Charles J. Rosser

charles.rosser@urology.ufl.edu

Affiliation Department of Urology, The University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG CJR. Performed the experiments: KN SP RA KAI CU NS. Analyzed the data: SG CJR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG LR CJR. Wrote the paper: SG CJR.