About the Authors

He Cui

Contributed equally to this work with: He Cui, Akira Kohsaka

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Wakayama Medical University School of Medicine, Wakayama, Japan

Akira Kohsaka

Contributed equally to this work with: He Cui, Akira Kohsaka

kohsaka@wakayama-med.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Wakayama Medical University School of Medicine, Wakayama, Japan

Hidefumi Waki

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Wakayama Medical University School of Medicine, Wakayama, Japan

Mohammad E. R. Bhuiyan

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Wakayama Medical University School of Medicine, Wakayama, Japan

Sabine S. Gouraud

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Wakayama Medical University School of Medicine, Wakayama, Japan

Masanobu Maeda

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Wakayama Medical University School of Medicine, Wakayama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HC AK MM. Performed the experiments: HC AK HW MERB SSG. Analyzed the data: HC AK HW. Wrote the paper: HC AK MM.