Etsuko Kishimoto ( ),1 Yuji Naito ( ),2 Osamu Handa ( ),2 Hitomi Okada ( ),2
Katsura Mizushima ( ),2 Yasuko Hirai ( ),2 Nami Nakabe ( ),2 Kazuhiko Uchiyama ( ),2
Takeshi Ishikawa ( ),2 Tomohisa Takagi ( ),2 Nobuaki Yagi ( ),2 Satoshi Kokura ( ),2
Norimasa Yoshida ( ),3 and Toshikazu Yoshikawa ( )
2
Departments of 1
Inflammation and Immunology and 2
Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kyoto Prefectural
University of Medicine, Kyoto; 3
Department of Gastroenterology, Japanese Red Cross Kyoto Daiichi Hospital, Kyoto, Japan
Submitted 23 October 2009; accepted in final form 21 May 2011