About the Authors

Yusuke Kashiwagi

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Tomohisa Nagoshi

tnagoshi@jikei.ac.jp

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Takuya Yoshino

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Toshikazu D. Tanaka

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Keiichi Ito

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Tohru Harada

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroyuki Takahashi

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Masahiro Ikegami

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Ryuko Anzawa

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Michihiro Yoshimura

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YK TN MY. Performed the experiments: YK TN TY TH HT MI RA. Analyzed the data: YK TN TY TDT KI TH HT RA MY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YK TN TY TDT KI TH HT MI. Wrote the paper: YK TN MY.