About the Authors

Zaied Ahmed Bhuyan

Contributed equally to this work with: Zaied Ahmed Bhuyan, Michihito Asanoma, Akiko Iwata

Affiliation Department of Immunology & Parasitology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Michihito Asanoma

Contributed equally to this work with: Zaied Ahmed Bhuyan, Michihito Asanoma, Akiko Iwata

Affiliations Department of Immunology & Parasitology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan, Digestive and Pediatric Surgery, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Akiko Iwata

Contributed equally to this work with: Zaied Ahmed Bhuyan, Michihito Asanoma, Akiko Iwata

Affiliations Department of Immunology & Parasitology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan, Ophthalmology and Visual Neuroscience, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Chieko Ishifune

Affiliation Department of Immunology & Parasitology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Yoichi Maekawa

Affiliation Department of Immunology & Parasitology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Mitsuo Shimada

Affiliation Digestive and Pediatric Surgery, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Koji Yasutomo

yasutomo@tokushima-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Immunology & Parasitology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZAB MA YM KY. Performed the experiments: ZAB MA AI CI. Analyzed the data: ZAB MA AI CI MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MA AI. Wrote the paper: ZAB MA MS KY.