About the Authors

Masahiro Yamaguchi

Affiliation Nippon Medical School, Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Ken Okamoto

okamoto@nms.ac.jp

Affiliation Nippon Medical School, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tokyo, Japan

Teruo Kusano

Affiliation Nippon Medical School, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tokyo, Japan

Yoko Matsuda

Affiliation Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital and Institute of Gerontology, Department of Pathology, Tokyo, Japan

Go Suzuki

Affiliation Nippon Medical School, Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Akira Fuse

Affiliation Nippon Medical School, Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroyuki Yokota

Affiliation Nippon Medical School, Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KO HY AF. Performed the experiments: MY TK YM. Analyzed the data: KO TK MY GS YM. Wrote the paper: KO TK MY YM.