About the Authors
- Yusuke Hama
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Contributed equally to this work with: Yusuke Hama, Tokuhiro Chano
Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Shiga, Japan
- Tokuhiro Chano
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Contributed equally to this work with: Yusuke Hama, Tokuhiro Chano
* E-mail: chano@belle.shiga-med.ac.jp
Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Shiga, Japan
- Takuma Inui
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Shiga, Japan
- Kyoichi Matsumoto
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Affiliation Mikuri Immunology Laboratory, Osaka, Japan
- Hidetoshi Okabe
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Shiga, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have the following competing interest. Kyoichi Matsumoto is an employee of Mikuri Immunology Laboratory, Inc. and collaborated with the other authors in immunizing mice and preparing hybridomas for the monoclonal antibodies. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TC HO. Performed the experiments: YH TC TI KM HO. Analyzed the data: YH TC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KM. Wrote the paper: YH TC.