About the Authors

Keiko Tanaka

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Departments of Physiology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan, Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okayama University Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Haruko Hayasaka

Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Science, Faculty of Science & Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kindai University, Osaka, Japan

Taiji Matsusaka

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

taijim@is.icc.u-tokai.ac.jp

Affiliation Departments of Physiology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.