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History
- Received December 17, 2013
- Revision received May 22, 2014
- Accepted May 28, 2014
- First published June 25, 2014.
- Version of record published June 25, 2014.
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Author Information
- 1Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8577, Japan,
- 2Human Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba 305-8568, Japan,
- 3Biomedical Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba 305-8566, Japan, and
- 4Department of Electronics and Bioinformatics, Meiji University, Tama, Kawasaki 214-8571, Japan
Author contributions
Author contributions: N.K. and I.T. designed research; N.K. and I.T. performed research; R.K. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; N.K., R.K., and I.T. analyzed data; N.K., R.K., and I.T. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received December 17, 2013.
- Revision received May 22, 2014.
- Accepted May 28, 2014.
This work was supported in part by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 22500375 to I.T. We thank Drs. Noriyuki Higo, Yumiko Watanabe, Fumihiro Shuto, and Setsuji Hisano for histological verification and valuable comments.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Ichiro Takashima, Human Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan. i.takashima{at}aist.go.jp
