About the Authors
- Hideki Sudo
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hideki Sudo, Katsuhisa Yamada
* E-mail: hidekisudo@yahoo.co.jp
Affiliation Department of Advanced Medicine for Spine and Spinal Cord Disorders, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
- Katsuhisa Yamada
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hideki Sudo, Katsuhisa Yamada
Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
- Koji Iwasaki
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Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
- Hideaki Higashi
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Affiliation Division of Infection and Immunity, Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan
- Manabu Ito
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Affiliation Department of Advanced Medicine for Spine and Spinal Cord Disorders, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
- Akio Minami
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Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
- Norimasa Iwasaki
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Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HS. Performed the experiments: HS KY KI. Analyzed the data: HS KY HH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HS MI AM NI. Wrote the paper: HS.