About the Authors
- Hiroshi Kataoka
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hiroshi Kataoka, Hajime Kono
Affiliation Department of Pathology, UMass Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Hajime Kono
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hiroshi Kataoka, Hajime Kono
Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Zubin Patel
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, UMass Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Kenneth L. Rock
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* E-mail: Kenneth.rock@umassmed.edu
Affiliation Department of Pathology, UMass Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
Bristol-Myers Squibb provided funding towards this study. 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.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: H. Kataoka H. Kono KLR. Performed the experiments: H. Kataoka H. Kono ZP. Analyzed the data: H. Kataoka H. Kono ZP KLR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: H. Kataoka H. Kono ZP KLR. Wrote the paper: H. Kataoka H. Kono KLR.