1. Department of Medicine and Bioregulatory Sciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School of Health Biosciences
2. Department of Internal Medicine, Tokushima Prefectural Central Hospital
3. Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, The University of Tokushima Graduate School of Oral Science
4. Department of Biomaterials and Bioengineering, The University of Tokushima Graduate School of Oral Science
5. Division of Transfusion Medicine, Tokushima University Hospital, Tokushima
6. Department of Haematology and Oncology, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University, Japan