About the Authors

Yasumasa Ikeda

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasumasa Ikeda, Iori Ozono

yasuike@tokushima-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Iori Ozono

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasumasa Ikeda, Iori Ozono

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan, Student Lab, The University of Tokushima Faculty of Medicine, Tokushima, Japan

Soichiro Tajima

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Mizuki Imao

Affiliation Department of Medical Pharmacology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Yuya Horinouchi

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Yuki Izawa-Ishizawa

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Yoshitaka Kihira

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Licht Miyamoto

Affiliation Department of Medical Pharmacology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Keisuke Ishizawa

Affiliation Department of Medical Pharmacology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Koichiro Tsuchiya

Affiliation Department of Medical Pharmacology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Toshiaki Tamaki

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YI. Performed the experiments: YI IO MI. Analyzed the data: YI IO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YI TT. Wrote the paper: YI. Interpreted results of experiments: YI IO ST YH YI-I YK LM KI KT TT.