About the Authors

Kenji Hirata

kenjihirata@ucla.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Kentaro Kobayashi

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Koon-Pong Wong

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Osamu Manabe

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Andrew Surmak

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Nagara Tamaki

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Sung-Cheng Huang

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KH SH. Performed the experiments: KH KK. Analyzed the data: KH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KH KW OM. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: KH KW OM AS NT SH.