About the Authors
- Seiji Ishikawa
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Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Ichiro Tateya
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* E-mail: tateya@ent.kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Takahiro Hayasaka
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Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
- Noritaka Masaki
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Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
- Yoshinori Takizawa
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Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
- Satoshi Ohno
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Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Tsuyoshi Kojima
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Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Yoshiharu Kitani
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Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Morimasa Kitamura
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Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Shigeru Hirano
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Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Mitsutoshi Setou
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Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
- Juichi Ito
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Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SI IT TH SH MK MS. Performed the experiments: SI TH YT. Analyzed the data: SI IT TH NM MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SI IT SH JI TH NM YT MS. Wrote the paper: SI IT TH NM SH JI. Sample collection: SI IT SO TK YK MK SH JI.