About the Authors

Mamoru Tanida

mtanida@kanazawa-med.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Physiology II, Kanazawa Medical University, Uchinada, Ishikawa, Japan, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan

Naoki Yamamoto

Affiliation College of Pharmacology, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan

Toshishige Shibamoto

Affiliation Department of Physiology II, Kanazawa Medical University, Uchinada, Ishikawa, Japan

Kamal Rahmouni

Affiliation Departments of Pharmacology and Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver, College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Obtained advice for writing the manuscript: TS. Conceived and designed the experiments: MT. Performed the experiments: MT NY. Analyzed the data: MT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TS. Wrote the paper: MT KR.