About the Authors

Kenji Suita

Contributed equally to this work with: Kenji Suita, Takayuki Fujita

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Takayuki Fujita

Contributed equally to this work with: Kenji Suita, Takayuki Fujita

fujitaka@yokohama-cu.ac.jp (TF); yishikaw@med.yokohama-cu.ac.jp (YI)

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Nozomi Hasegawa

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Wenqian Cai

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Huiling Jin

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Yuko Hidaka

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Rajesh Prajapati

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Masanari Umemura

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Utako Yokoyama

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Motohiko Sato

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Institute, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan, Department of Physiology, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Aichi, Japan

Satoshi Okumura

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Institute, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan, Department of Physiology, Tsurumi University School of Dental Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Yoshihiro Ishikawa

fujitaka@yokohama-cu.ac.jp (TF); yishikaw@med.yokohama-cu.ac.jp (YI)

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TF SO YI. Performed the experiments: KS NH WC HJ YH RP. Analyzed the data: KS TF SO YI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KS TF MU UY MS SO YI. Wrote the paper: KS TF YI.