About the Authors
- Masataka Morioka
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Contributed equally to this work with: Masataka Morioka, Harikrishnan Parameswaran, Satoru Ito
Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
- Harikrishnan Parameswaran
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Contributed equally to this work with: Masataka Morioka, Harikrishnan Parameswaran, Satoru Ito
Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Keiji Naruse
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Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Physiology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Okayama, Japan
- Masashi Kondo
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Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
- Masahiro Sokabe
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Affiliation Department of Physiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
- Yoshinori Hasegawa
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Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
- Béla Suki
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Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Satoru Ito
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Contributed equally to this work with: Masataka Morioka, Harikrishnan Parameswaran, Satoru Ito
* E-mail: itori@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
Competing Interests
K.N. has served on the STREX Advisory Board for up to $1,000. He has received a grant from MENICON for $1,001–$5,000, and a sponsored grant from the National Institutes of Health for $5,001–$10,000. He has a patent pending with STREX for a stretch machine, and owns stock in the amount of $10,001–$50,000. None of the other authors have a financial relationship with a commercial entity that has an interest in the subject of this manuscript. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SI HP BS. Performed the experiments: MM MK SI. Analyzed the data: MK YH SI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MM HP KN MK YH SI. Wrote the paper: HP MS BS SI.