About the Authors

Yoshifumi Teraoka

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Frontier Medical Science, Programs for Biomedical Research, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Kentaro Ide

ideken@hiroshima-u.ac.jp (KI); hohdan@hiroshima-u.ac.jp (HO)

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Frontier Medical Science, Programs for Biomedical Research, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Hiroshi Morimoto

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Frontier Medical Science, Programs for Biomedical Research, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Hiroyuki Tahara

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Frontier Medical Science, Programs for Biomedical Research, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Hideki Ohdan

ideken@hiroshima-u.ac.jp (KI); hohdan@hiroshima-u.ac.jp (HO)

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Frontier Medical Science, Programs for Biomedical Research, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KI HO. Performed the experiments: YT HM. Analyzed the data: YT KI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YT HT. Wrote the paper: KI HO.