About the Authors

Tadayuki Oshima

t-oshima@hyo-med.ac.jp

Affiliation Division of Upper Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan

Jing Shan

Affiliation Division of Upper Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan

Takuya Okugawa

Affiliation Division of Upper Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan

Xin Chen

Affiliation Division of Upper Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan

Kazutoshi Hori

Affiliation Division of Upper Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan

Toshihiko Tomita

Affiliation Division of Upper Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan

Hirokazu Fukui

Affiliation Division of Upper Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan

Jiro Watari

Affiliation Division of Upper Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan

Hiroto Miwa

Affiliation Division of Upper Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TOshima KH HF. Performed the experiments: JS TOkugawa XC TT. Analyzed the data: TOshima TOkugawa KH. Wrote the paper: TOshima JS JW HM.