About the Authors

Nobuyo Ohtani

Affiliation Laboratory of Effective Animals for Human Health, School of Veterinary Medicine, Azabu University, 1-17-71 Fuchinobe, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Yuta Okamoto

Affiliation Laboratory of Effective Animals for Human Health, School of Veterinary Medicine, Azabu University, 1-17-71 Fuchinobe, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Kanako Tateishi

Affiliation Laboratory of Effective Animals for Human Health, School of Veterinary Medicine, Azabu University, 1-17-71 Fuchinobe, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Hidehiko Uchiyama

Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Facilitated Therapy, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture, 1737 Funako, Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan

Mitsuaki Ohta

mohta@azabu-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Laboratory of Effective Animals for Human Health, School of Veterinary Medicine, Azabu University, 1-17-71 Fuchinobe, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan, Laboratory of Animal Facilitated Therapy, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture, 1737 Funako, Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NO MO. Performed the experiments: NO YO KT HU. Analyzed the data: YO MO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NO YO KT. Wrote the paper: NO MO.