About the Authors

Emi Nakamura

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan

Hiroyuki Kinoshita

hkinoshi@aichi-med-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan

Guo-Gang Feng

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan

Hisaki Hayashi

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan

Maiko Satomoto

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Motohiko Sato

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan

Yoshihiro Fujiwara

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HK. Data curation: MoS YF. Formal analysis: HK MaS. Funding acquisition: HK. Investigation: EN HK G-GF HH. Methodology: EN HK G-GF HH. Project administration: HK. Resources: YF. Supervision: HK. Validation: MaS. Visualization: HK. Writing – original draft: EN HK HH. Writing – review & editing: HK.