About the Authors

Yusuke S. Hori

Contributed equally to this work with: Yusuke S. Hori, Atsushi Kuno, Ryusuke Hosoda

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan

Atsushi Kuno

Contributed equally to this work with: Yusuke S. Hori, Atsushi Kuno, Ryusuke Hosoda

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan, Department of Cardiovascular, Renal, and Metabolic Medicine, School of Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan

Ryusuke Hosoda

Contributed equally to this work with: Yusuke S. Hori, Atsushi Kuno, Ryusuke Hosoda

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan

Yoshiyuki Horio

horio@sapmed.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YSH AK YH. Performed the experiments: YSH RH. Analyzed the data: YSH AK YH. Wrote the paper: YSH AK YH.