About the Authors
- Junya Sato
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Contributed equally to this work with: Junya Sato, Mitsuo Kinugasa
Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
- Mitsuo Kinugasa
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Contributed equally to this work with: Junya Sato, Mitsuo Kinugasa
Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
- Seimi Satomi-Kobayashi
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Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
- Kinta Hatakeyama
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
- Aaron J. Knox
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Physiology, and Biophysics, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
- Yujiro Asada
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
- Margaret E. Wierman
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Physiology, and Biophysics, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
- Ken-ichi Hirata
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Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
- Yoshiyuki Rikitake
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* E-mail: rikitake@med.kobe-u.ac.jp
Affiliations Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, Division of Signal Transduction, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: K. Hirata YR. Performed the experiments: JS MK SS. Analyzed the data: JS MK YR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: K. Hatakeyama AJK YA MEW. Wrote the paper: JS MK YR.