About the Authors

Yasumasa Ikeda

yasuike@basic.med.tokushima-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Soichiro Tajima

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Yuki Izawa-Ishizawa

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Yoshitaka Kihira

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Keisuke Ishizawa

Affiliation Department of Medical Pharmacology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Shuhei Tomita

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Koichiro Tsuchiya

Affiliation Department of Medical Pharmacology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Toshiaki Tamaki

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YI S. Tajima TT. Performed the experiments: YI S. Tajima. Analyzed the data: YI S. Tajima YI-I YK KI S. Tomita KT TT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YI S.Tajima YI-I YK KI S. Tomita KT TT. Wrote the paper: YK.