About the Authors

Shinji Yamaguchi

Affiliation Department of Life and Health Sciences, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Teikyo University, Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Shin Hayase

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan

Naoya Aoki

Affiliation Department of Life and Health Sciences, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Teikyo University, Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Akihiko Takehara

Affiliation Department of Life and Health Sciences, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Teikyo University, Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Jun Ishigohoka

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan

Toshiya Matsushima

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan

Kazuhiro Wada

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan

Koichi J. Homma

hommakj@pharm.teikyo-u.ac.jp, homma-kj@umin.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Life and Health Sciences, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Teikyo University, Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SY KW KJH. Data curation: SY SH NA. Formal analysis: SY NA SH JI. Funding acquisition: SY NA TM KW KJH. Investigation: SY NA. Methodology: SY NA AT KJH. Project administration: KJH. Resources: SH JI KW. Software: NA. Supervision: KJH. Validation: SY. Writing – original draft: SY KJH. Writing – review & editing: KW TM NA.