1 Department of Hematology and Immunology, Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Daigaku, Uchinada, Kahoku-gun, Ishikawa, 920-0293, Japan. yasum@kanazawa-med.ac.jp.
2 Department of Hematology and Immunology, Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Daigaku, Uchinada, Kahoku-gun, Ishikawa, 920-0293, Japan.
3 Division of Hematology, Niigata City General Hospital, Niigata, Japan.
4 Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan.
5 Medical Research Institute, Kanazawa Medical University, Uchinada, Kahoku-gun, Japan.
6 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, Uchinada, Kahoku-gun, Japan.
7 Department of Hematology and Rheumatology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
8 Department of Pathology and Biological Response, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
9 Department of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Niigata University of Pharmacy and Applied Life Sciences, Niigata, Japan.