About the Authors

Yoshiaki Shimoda

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 465 Kajii, Kawaramachi-Hirokoji, Kamigyo, Kyoto 602–8566, Japan

Kiyonari Matsuo

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 465 Kajii, Kawaramachi-Hirokoji, Kamigyo, Kyoto 602–8566, Japan

Youhei Kitamura

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 465 Kajii, Kawaramachi-Hirokoji, Kamigyo, Kyoto 602–8566, Japan

Kazunori Ono

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 465 Kajii, Kawaramachi-Hirokoji, Kamigyo, Kyoto 602–8566, Japan

Tomomi Ueyama

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 465 Kajii, Kawaramachi-Hirokoji, Kamigyo, Kyoto 602–8566, Japan

Satoaki Matoba

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 465 Kajii, Kawaramachi-Hirokoji, Kamigyo, Kyoto 602–8566, Japan

Hiroyuki Yamada

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 465 Kajii, Kawaramachi-Hirokoji, Kamigyo, Kyoto 602–8566, Japan

Tongbin Wu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Ju Chen

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Noriaki Emoto

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, 4-19-1 Motoyama-Kitamachi, Higashinada, Kobe6588558, Japan

Koji Ikeda

ikedak-circ@umin.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, 4-19-1 Motoyama-Kitamachi, Higashinada, Kobe6588558, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YS KI. Performed the experiments: YS KM YK KO KI. Analyzed the data: YS TU SM HY KI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TW JC. Wrote the paper: YS KI NE.