About the Authors
- Yoshiomi Kobayashi
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Contributed equally to this work with: Yoshiomi Kobayashi, Yohei Okada
Affiliations Department of Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
- Yohei Okada
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Contributed equally to this work with: Yoshiomi Kobayashi, Yohei Okada
Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
- Go Itakura
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Affiliations Department of Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
- Hiroki Iwai
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Affiliations Department of Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
- Soraya Nishimura
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Affiliations Department of Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
- Akimasa Yasuda
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Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
- Satoshi Nori
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Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
- Keigo Hikishima
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Affiliations Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, Central Institute for Experimental Animals, Kanagawa, Japan
- Tsunehiko Konomi
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Affiliations Department of Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
- Kanehiro Fujiyoshi
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Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, National Hospital Organization Murayama Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
- Osahiko Tsuji
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Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Saitama Social Insurance Hospital, Saitama, Japan
- Yoshiaki Toyama
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Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
- Shinya Yamanaka
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Affiliation Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto, Japan
- Masaya Nakamura
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* E-mail: masa@a8.keio.jp (MN); hidokano@a2.keio.jp (HO)
Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
- Hideyuki Okano
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* E-mail: masa@a8.keio.jp (MN); hidokano@a2.keio.jp (HO)
Affiliation Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: YK YO YT MN HO. Performed the experiments: YK YO HI S. Nishimura KH TK KF. Analyzed the data: YK HI S. Nishimura AY TK KF MN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YK YO GI HI S. Nishimura AY S. Nori KH TK KF OT SY. Wrote the paper: YK KH MN HO.