About the Authors

Tsuyoshi Okura

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

ohkura@med.tottori-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, Yonago, Tottori, Japan

Risa Nakamura

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, Yonago, Tottori, Japan

Yohei Fujioka

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, Yonago, Tottori, Japan

Sonoko Kawamoto-Kitao

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, Yonago, Tottori, Japan

Yuichi Ito

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, Yonago, Tottori, Japan

Kazuhisa Matsumoto

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, Yonago, Tottori, Japan

Kyoko Shoji

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, Yonago, Tottori, Japan

Keisuke Sumi

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, Yonago, Tottori, Japan

Kazuhiko Matsuzawa

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, Yonago, Tottori, Japan

Shoichiro Izawa

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, Yonago, Tottori, Japan

Etsuko Ueta

Roles Methodology

Affiliation School of Health Science, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, Yonago, Tottori, Japan

Masahiko Kato

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, Yonago, Tottori, Japan

Takeshi Imamura

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Molecular Pharmacology, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, Yonago, Tottori, Japan

Shin-ichi Taniguchi

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Regional Medicine, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, Yonago, Tottori, Japan

Kazuhiro Yamamoto

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, Yonago, Tottori, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.