About the Authors

Batmunkh Bumdelger

Contributed equally to this work with: Batmunkh Bumdelger, Hiroki Kokubo, Ryo Kamata

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Physiology and Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Hiroki Kokubo

Contributed equally to this work with: Batmunkh Bumdelger, Hiroki Kokubo, Ryo Kamata

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Physiology and Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Ryo Kamata

Contributed equally to this work with: Batmunkh Bumdelger, Hiroki Kokubo, Ryo Kamata

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Physiology and Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Masayuki Fujii

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Physiology and Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Koichi Yoshimura

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Clinical Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Ube, Japan

Hiroki Aoki

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute, Kurume University, Kurume, Japan

Yuichi Orita

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Takafumi Ishida

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Megu Ohtaki

Affiliation Department of Environmetrics and Biometrics, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Masataka Nagao

Affiliation Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Mari Ishida

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Physiology and Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Masao Yoshizumi

yoshizum-tky@umin.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Physiology and Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BB HK RK KY HA TI MN MI MY. Performed the experiments: BB HK RK MF. Analyzed the data: BB HK RK MF YO MO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KY HA TI MO MN MI. Wrote the paper: BB HK MY.