About the Authors

Hidenobu Okuda

Affiliation Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Akira Tsujimura

Affiliation Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Shinji Irie

Affiliation Life Science Research Laboratory, Toppan Technical Research Institute, Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., Kanda Izumi-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Keisuke Yamamoto

Affiliation Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Shinichiro Fukuhara

Affiliation Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Yasuhiro Matsuoka

Affiliation Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Tetsuya Takao

Affiliation Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Yasushi Miyagawa

Affiliation Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Norio Nonomura

Affiliation Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Morimasa Wada

Affiliation Molecular Biology Division, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagasaki International University, Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan

Hiromitsu Tanaka

h-tanaka@niu.ac.jp

Affiliation Molecular Biology Division, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagasaki International University, Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HT. Performed the experiments: HO HT SI. Analyzed the data: HT HO SI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AT KY SF Y. Matsuoka TT Y. Miyagawa NN MW. Wrote the paper: HO.