About the Authors
- Hiroyuki Okada
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hiroyuki Okada, Atsushi Tajima
Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan
- Atsushi Tajima
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hiroyuki Okada, Atsushi Tajima
Affiliation Division of Molecular Life Science, School of Medicine, Tokai University, Isehara, Japan
- Kazuyoshi Shichiri
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Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tachikawa Hospital, Nagaoka, Japan
- Atsushi Tanaka
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Affiliation St. Mother's Hospital, Kitakyushu, Japan
- Kenichi Tanaka
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Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan
- Ituro Inoue
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ituro@is.icc.u-tokai.ac.jp
Affiliations Division of Molecular Life Science, School of Medicine, Tokai University, Isehara, Japan , Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Kawaguchi, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
AT, KT, and II conceived and designed the experiments. HO and AT performed the experiments and analyzed the data. AT, KS, KT, and II contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. HO, AT, and II wrote the manuscript. All authors contributed to editing the manuscript. HO and AT have joint authorship of this manuscript.