From the *Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; †Department of Experimental Therapeutics, Translational Research Center, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan; ‡Department of Biological Responses, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan and §Third Department of Internal Medicine, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan.
Received for publication October 4, 2005; accepted December 12, 2005.
This study was supported by grant-in-aid of the *Shimizu Foundation for the promotion of Immunology Research and grants-in-aid for †‡§Scientific Research (A15209024, A16790378, and C17590634) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Reprints: Akiyoshi Nishio, MD, PhD, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, 54 Shogoin-Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan (e-mail: [email protected]).
