About the Authors

Hisashi Nagai

nagai@legalmed.jp

Affiliations Department of Forensic Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Forensic Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Ichiro Kuwahira

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Tokai University Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Daryl O. Schwenke

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Heart Otago, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Hirotsugu Tsuchimochi

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Physiology, National Cerebral & Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan

Akina Nara

Affiliation Department of Forensic Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Sayoko Ogura

Affiliations Department of Forensic Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Sonobe

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Physiology, National Cerebral & Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan

Tadakatsu Inagaki

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Physiology, National Cerebral & Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan

Yutaka Fujii

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Physiology, National Cerebral & Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan

Rutsuko Yamaguchi

Affiliation Department of Forensic Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Lisa Wingenfeld

Affiliation Institute of Forensic Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany

Keiji Umetani

Affiliation Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Hyogo, Japan

Tatsuo Shimosawa

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Ken-ichi Yoshida

Affiliations Department of Forensic Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Forensic Medicine, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Koichi Uemura

Affiliation Department of Forensic Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

James T. Pearson

Affiliations Monash Biomedical Imaging Facility and Department of Physiology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, Imaging and Medical therapy Beamline, Australian Synchrotron, Clayton, Australia

Mikiyasu Shirai

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Physiology, National Cerebral & Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HN MS IK KY. Performed the experiments: HN DOS HT AN SO T. Sonobe TI YF RY LW K. Umetani. Analyzed the data: HN DOS MS IK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HN MS IK DOS JTP KY. Wrote the paper: HN MS IK DOS JTP K. Uemura T. Shimosawa.