About the Authors

Atsushi Yasukawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Atsushi Yasukawa, Koa Hosoki

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Koa Hosoki

Contributed equally to this work with: Atsushi Yasukawa, Koa Hosoki

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan, Institute for Clinical Research, Mie National Hospital, Tsu City, Mie, Japan

Masaaki Toda

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Yasushi Miyake

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Yuki Matsushima

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Takahiro Matsumoto

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Daniel Boveda-Ruiz

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Paloma Gil-Bernabe

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Mizuho Nagao

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Research, Mie National Hospital, Tsu City, Mie, Japan

Mayumi Sugimoto

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Research, Mie National Hospital, Tsu City, Mie, Japan

Yukiko Hiraguchi

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Research, Mie National Hospital, Tsu City, Mie, Japan

Reiko Tokuda

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Research, Mie National Hospital, Tsu City, Mie, Japan

Masahiro Naito

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Takehiro Takagi

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Corina N. D'Alessandro-Gabazza

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Shigeru Suga

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Research, Mie National Hospital, Tsu City, Mie, Japan

Tetsu Kobayashi

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Takao Fujisawa

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Research, Mie National Hospital, Tsu City, Mie, Japan

Osamu Taguchi

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Esteban C. Gabazza

gabazza@clin.medic.mie-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ECG TF OT. Performed the experiments: AY KH MT Y. Miyake Y. Matsushima TM DBR PG-B TK. Analyzed the data: M. Naito TT SS CND-G. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: M. Nagao MS YH RT. Wrote the paper: AY CND-G.