About the Authors

Masayuki Hanaoka

Contributed equally to this work with: Masayuki Hanaoka, Yunden Droma

Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan

Yunden Droma

Contributed equally to this work with: Masayuki Hanaoka, Yunden Droma

Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan

Buddha Basnyat

Affiliation Nepal International Clinic, Katmandu, Nepal

Michiko Ito

Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan

Nobumitsu Kobayashi

Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan

Yoshihiko Katsuyama

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Shinshu University Hospital, Matsumoto, Japan

Keishi Kubo

Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan

Masao Ota

otamasao@shinshu-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Legal Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH YD MO. Performed the experiments: YD MI NK YK. Analyzed the data: MH YD MO YK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MH YD BB YK MO. Wrote the paper: YD MO. Critically revised the manuscript: KK.