About the Authors

Yasuyuki Nagasawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasuyuki Nagasawa, Kenichiro Iio, Shinji Fukuda

nagasawa@kid.med.osaka-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Geriatric Medicine and Nephrology, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Division of Kidney and Dialysis, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Mukogawa-Cho, Nishinomiya, Japan

Kenichiro Iio

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasuyuki Nagasawa, Kenichiro Iio, Shinji Fukuda

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine and Nephrology, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Shinji Fukuda

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasuyuki Nagasawa, Kenichiro Iio, Shinji Fukuda

Affiliations Laboratory for Epithelial Immunobiology, RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology, Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Graduate School of Nanobioscience, Yokohama City University, Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Mizukami, Kakuganji, Tsuruoka, Yamagata, Japan

Yasuhiro Date

Affiliations Laboratory for Epithelial Immunobiology, RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology, Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience, Waseda University, Wakamatsu-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Hirotsugu Iwatani

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine and Nephrology, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Ryohei Yamamoto

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine and Nephrology, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Arata Horii

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Hidenori Inohara

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Enyu Imai

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine and Nephrology, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Takeshi Nakanishi

Affiliation Division of Kidney and Dialysis, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Mukogawa-Cho, Nishinomiya, Japan

Hiroshi Ohno

Affiliations Laboratory for Epithelial Immunobiology, RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology, Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Graduate School of Nanobioscience, Yokohama City University, Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Hiromi Rakugi

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine and Nephrology, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Yoshitaka Isaka

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine and Nephrology, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YN KI SF RY AH YI. Performed the experiments: YN KI SF YD HI AH. Analyzed the data: KI SF YD RY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YN HI RY AH HI TN HO HR EI YI. Wrote the paper: YN KI SF HI RY AH TN HO HR EI YI.