About the Authors
- Naoko Saito
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Contributed equally to this work with: Naoko Saito, Emi Yamano
Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: saito.nao@kao.com (NS); emi.yamano@riken.jp (EY)
Affiliation Kansei Science Research, Kao Corporation, Haga, Tochigi, Japan
- Emi Yamano
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Contributed equally to this work with: Naoko Saito, Emi Yamano
Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: saito.nao@kao.com (NS); emi.yamano@riken.jp (EY)
Affiliations Health Metrics Development Team, RIKEN Compass to Healthy Life Research Complex Program, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, Department of Physiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
- Akira Ishii
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft
Affiliation Department of Sports Medicine, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
- Masaaki Tanaka
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft
Affiliation Department of Physiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
- Junji Nakamura
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Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Kansei Science Research, Kao Corporation, Haga, Tochigi, Japan
- Yasuyoshi Watanabe
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Health Metrics Development Team, RIKEN Compass to Healthy Life Research Complex Program, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, Department of Physiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Competing Interests
EY, AI. MT, and YW declare no conflict of interests. NS and JN are employees of Kao Corporation Kansei Science Research, and developed odorant which was used in this study was not a product of Kao Corporation. Kao Corporation has a patent relating to anti-fatigue odorant, P6283579. These do not alter the authors’ adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no products in development or marketed products to declare.