About the Authors

Koichi Himori

Contributed equally to this work with: Koichi Himori, Masami Abe

Affiliation Graduate School of Health Sciences, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan

Masami Abe

Contributed equally to this work with: Koichi Himori, Masami Abe

Affiliation Graduate School of Health Sciences, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan

Daisuke Tatebayashi

Affiliation Graduate School of Health Sciences, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan

Jaesik Lee

Affiliation Graduate School of Health Sciences, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan

Håkan Westerblad

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Johanna T. Lanner

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Takashi Yamada

takashi.yamada1976@sapmed.ac.jp

Affiliation Graduate School of Health Sciences, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HW JTL TY. Formal analysis: KH MA HW JTL TY. Funding acquisition: JTL TY. Investigation: KH MA HW JTL TY. Project administration: TY. Resources: HW JTL TY. Supervision: HW JTL TY. Validation: KH MA DT JL TY. Visualization: HW JTL TY. Writing – original draft: TY. Writing – review & editing: KH MA DT JL HW JTL TY.