About the Authors
- Yohsuke Tomosada
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Contributed equally to this work with: Yohsuke Tomosada, Julio Villena
Affiliation Food and Feed Immunology Group, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Julio Villena
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Contributed equally to this work with: Yohsuke Tomosada, Julio Villena
Affiliations Food and Feed Immunology Group, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Biochemistry, Reference Centre for Lactobacilli (CERELA-CONICET), Tucuman, Argentina
- Kozue Murata
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Affiliation Food and Feed Immunology Group, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Eriko Chiba
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Affiliation Food and Feed Immunology Group, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Tomoyuki Shimazu
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Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Hisashi Aso
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Affiliation Cell Biology Laboratory, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Noriyuki Iwabuchi
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Affiliation Food Science and Technology Institute, Morinaga Milk Industry Co. Ltd, Zama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Jin-zhong Xiao
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Affiliation Food Science and Technology Institute, Morinaga Milk Industry Co. Ltd, Zama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Tadao Saito
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Affiliation Food and Feed Immunology Group, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Haruki Kitazawa
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* E-mail: haruki@bios.tohoku.ac.jp
Affiliation Food and Feed Immunology Group, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Competing Interests
This study was partially financially supported by Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd. Noriyuki Iwabuchi, Jin-zhong Xiao are employed by Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: YT JV HA J-zX T. Saito HK. Performed the experiments: YT JV KM EC T. Shimazu NI. Analyzed the data: YT JV KM HK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HK. Wrote the paper: YT JV HK.