Renal papillary tip extract stimulates BNP production and excretion from cardiomyocytes

• Itaru Goto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Itaru Goto, Ryuji Okamoto

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Nephrology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

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• Ryuji Okamoto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Itaru Goto, Ryuji Okamoto

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ryuji@clin.medic.mie-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Nephrology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8067-398X

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• Ryotaro Hashizume,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Matrix Biology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

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• Noboru Suzuki,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Animal Genomics, Functional Genomics Institute, Mie University Life Science Research Center, Tsu, Mie, Japan

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• Rie Ito,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Nephrology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

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• Keiichi Yamanaka,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

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• Hiromitsu Saito,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Animal Genomics, Functional Genomics Institute, Mie University Life Science Research Center, Tsu, Mie, Japan

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• Hiroshi Kiyonari,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources

  Affiliations Animal Resource Development Unit, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, Genetic Engineering Team, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

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• Isao Tawara,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

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• Yuki Kageyama,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

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• Yoshito Ogihara,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Nephrology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

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• Yusuf Ali,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Nephrology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

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• Norikazu Yamada,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Nephrology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

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• Naoyuki Katayama,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

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• Masaaki Ito

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Nephrology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

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