About the Authors

Waki Nakajima

Contributed equally to this work with: Waki Nakajima, Susumu Jitsuki

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Susumu Jitsuki

Contributed equally to this work with: Waki Nakajima, Susumu Jitsuki

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Akane Sano

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Takuya Takahashi

takahast@yokohama-cu.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WN SJ TT. Performed the experiments: WN SJ AS. Analyzed the data: WN SJ AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WN SJ AS. Wrote the paper: WN SJ TT.