About the Authors

Shintaro Saegusa

Contributed equally to this work with: Shintaro Saegusa, Masahiro Fukaya

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Masahiro Fukaya

Contributed equally to this work with: Shintaro Saegusa, Masahiro Fukaya

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Wataru Kakegawa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Manabu Tanaka

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Bio-imaging Center, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Osamu Katsumata

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Takeyuki Sugawara

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Yoshinobu Hara

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Makoto Itakura

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Tadashi Okubo

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Animal Science, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Toshiya Sato

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Animal Science, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Michisuke Yuzaki

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroyuki Sakagami

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sakagami@med.kitasato-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.