About the Authors

Kazumasu Sasaki

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care Service, Sendai Animal Care and Research Center, Sendai, Japan, Akita Cerebrospinal and Cardiovascular Center, Akita, Japan

Shuzo Yamamoto

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Tatsushi Mutoh

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tmutoh@tohoku.ac.jp

Affiliations Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care Service, Sendai Animal Care and Research Center, Sendai, Japan, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.