About the Authors

Yasuo Ouchi

Affiliations The Center for Education in Laboratory Animal Research, Chubu University, Kasugai, Aichi, Japan, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu University, Kasugai, Aichi, Japan

Jyunya Yamamoto

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu University, Kasugai, Aichi, Japan

Takashi Iwamoto

iwamoto@isc.chubu.ac.jp

Affiliations The Center for Education in Laboratory Animal Research, Chubu University, Kasugai, Aichi, Japan, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu University, Kasugai, Aichi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YO TI. Performed the experiments: YO JY TI. Analyzed the data: YO JY TI. Wrote the paper: YO TI.