About the Authors

Toshio Hayashi

hayashi@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Tomoe Yamaguchi

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Yasufumi Sakakibara

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Kumiko Taguchi

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toyama, Japan

Morihiko Maeda

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Masafumi Kuzuya

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Yuichi Hattori

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toyama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TH YS. Performed the experiments: TY MM YS. Analyzed the data: TH KT MK YH. Wrote the paper: TH YS YH.