About the Authors

Liubao Gu

Affiliations Department of Molecular Signaling, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Chuo, Yamanashi, Japan, Diabetes Care and Research Center, Jiangsu Province Institute of Geriatrics, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Masanori Kitamura

masanori@yamanashi.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Molecular Signaling, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Chuo, Yamanashi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LG MK. Performed the experiments: LG. Analyzed the data: LG MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LG MK. Wrote the paper: LG MK.