About the Authors

Milan Gautam

Contributed equally to this work with: Milan Gautam, Atsushi Izawa

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan

Atsushi Izawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Milan Gautam, Atsushi Izawa

izawa611@shinshu-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan

Yuji Shiba

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan

Hirohiko Motoki

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan

Takahiro Takeuchi

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan

Ayako Okada

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan

Takeshi Tomita

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan

Yusuke Miyashita

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan

Jun Koyama

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan

Uichi Ikeda

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AI UI. Performed the experiments: MG AI YS HM TT AO TT YM JK. Analyzed the data: MG AI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MG AI. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: MG AI UI.