About the Authors

Taiki Sato

Affiliation Laboratory of Pharmacotherapy of Life-Style Related Diseases, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Daisuke Kotake

Affiliation Laboratory of Pharmacotherapy of Life-Style Related Diseases, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Masahiro Hiratsuka

Affiliation Laboratory of Pharmacotherapy of Life-Style Related Diseases, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Noriyasu Hirasawa

hirasawa@m.tohoku.ac.jp

Affiliation Laboratory of Pharmacotherapy of Life-Style Related Diseases, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TS DK MH NH. Performed the experiments: TS DK. Analyzed the data: TS DK MH NH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TS DK MH NH. Wrote the paper: TS NH.