About the Authors
- Yukihiro Tamura
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Contributed equally to this work with: Yukihiro Tamura, Michiyo Higashi
Affiliations Department of Human Pathology, Field of Oncology, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima, Japan, Department of Internal Medicine, Ohsumi-Kanoya Hospital, Kanoya, Kagoshima, Japan
- Michiyo Higashi
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Contributed equally to this work with: Yukihiro Tamura, Michiyo Higashi
* E-mail: east@m2.kufm.kagoshima-u.ac.jp
Affiliation Department of Human Pathology, Field of Oncology, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima, Japan
- Sho Kitamoto
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Affiliation Department of Human Pathology, Field of Oncology, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima, Japan
- Seiya Yokoyama
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Affiliation Department of Human Pathology, Field of Oncology, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima, Japan
- Masahiko Osako
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kagoshima-shi Medical Association Hospital, Kagoshima, Japan
- Michiko Horinouchi
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Kagoshima-shi Medical Association Hospital, Kagoshima, Japan
- Takeshi Shimizu
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Kagoshima-shi Medical Association Hospital, Kagoshima, Japan
- Mineo Tabata
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kagoshima-shi Medical Association Hospital, Kagoshima, Japan
- Surinder K. Batra
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Affiliation Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
- Masamichi Goto
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Affiliations Department of Human Pathology, Field of Oncology, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima, Japan, National Sanatorium Hoshizuka-Keiaien, Kanoya, Kagoshima, Japan
- Suguru Yonezawa
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Affiliation Department of Human Pathology, Field of Oncology, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest regarding the work in the study.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: YT M. Higashi S. Yonezawa. Performed the experiments: YT M. Higashi SK S. Yokoyama S. Yonezawa. Analyzed the data: YT M. Higashi MG S. Yonezawa. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MO M. Horinouchi TS MT SKB. Wrote the paper: YT M. Higashi.