About the Authors

Susi Heiden

Contributed equally to this work with: Susi Heiden, Nicolas Vignon-Zellweger

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Kobe, Japan

Nicolas Vignon-Zellweger

Contributed equally to this work with: Susi Heiden, Nicolas Vignon-Zellweger

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Kobe, Japan

Shigeru Masuda

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Keiko Yagi

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Kobe, Japan

Kazuhiko Nakayama

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Kobe, Japan

Masashi Yanagisawa

Affiliation University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Dallas, United States of America

Noriaki Emoto

n-emoto@kobepharma-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Kobe, Japan, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH NV SM KY KN MY NE. Performed the experiments: SH NV SM KY KN. Analyzed the data: SH NV SM KY KN MY NE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH NV SM KY KN MY NE. Wrote the paper: SH NV NE.