About the Authors

Yosuke Miyazaki

Contributed equally to this work with: Yosuke Miyazaki, Yasuhiro Ikeda

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Division of Cardiology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Japan

Yasuhiro Ikeda

Contributed equally to this work with: Yosuke Miyazaki, Yasuhiro Ikeda

ysikeda-ymg@umin.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Division of Cardiology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Japan

Kozo Shiraishi

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Division of Cardiology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Japan

Shizuka N. Fujimoto

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Division of Cardiology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Japan

Hidekazu Aoyama

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Division of Cardiology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Japan

Koichi Yoshimura

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Clinical Science, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Japan

Makoto Inui

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Japan

Masahiko Hoshijima

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Hideko Kasahara

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Hiroki Aoki

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute, Kurume University, Kurume, Japan

Masunori Matsuzaki

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Division of Cardiology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YI H. Aoki. Performed the experiments: YM SNF KS H. Aoyama. Analyzed the data: MI KY MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MH HK. Wrote the paper: YI.