About the Authors

Yayoi Murakami

Affiliation Biological Process of Aging, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

Masafumi Ito

Affiliation Research Team for Mechanism of Aging, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

Ikuroh Ohsawa

iohsawa@tmig.or.jp

Affiliation Biological Process of Aging, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: IO MI. Data curation: IO YM MI. Formal analysis: IO YM. Funding acquisition: IO. Investigation: IO YM. Methodology: IO YM. Project administration: IO. Resources: IO MI. Software: IO YM. Supervision: IO. Validation: IO YM. Visualization: IO YM. Writing – original draft: IO YM. Writing – review & editing: MI.