About the Authors

Takamasa Tsuzuki

Contributed equally to this work with: Takamasa Tsuzuki, Shohei Shinozaki

Affiliations Graduate School of Health and Sports Science, Juntendo University, Chiba, Japan, Research Fellow of Japan Society for promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan

Shohei Shinozaki

Contributed equally to this work with: Takamasa Tsuzuki, Shohei Shinozaki

Affiliation Department of Arteriosclerosis and Vascular Biology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Hideko Nakamoto

Affiliation Institute of Health and Sports Science & Medicine, Juntendo University Graduate School of Health and Sports Science, Chiba, Japan

Masao Kaneki

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sataro Goto

Affiliation Institute of Health and Sports Science & Medicine, Juntendo University Graduate School of Health and Sports Science, Chiba, Japan

Kentaro Shimokado

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics and Vascular Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroyuki Kobayashi

Affiliations Graduate School of Health and Sports Science, Juntendo University, Chiba, Japan, Department of General Medicine, Mito Medical Center, Tsukuba University Hospital, Ibaraki, Japan

Hisashi Naito

hnaitou@juntendo.ac.jp

Affiliation Graduate School of Health and Sports Science, Juntendo University, Chiba, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TT SS MK SG HK H. Naito. Performed the experiments: TT SS H. Nakamoto. Analyzed the data: TT SS MK SG HK KS H. Naito. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: H. Naito. Wrote the paper: TT SS SG KS MK H. Naito.