About the Authors

Kenta Teruya

Affiliation Department of Neurochemistry, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Ayumi Oguma

Affiliation Department of Neurochemistry, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Keiko Nishizawa

Affiliation Department of Neurochemistry, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Maki Kawata

Affiliation Department of Neurochemistry, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Yuji Sakasegawa

Affiliation Department of Neurochemistry, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Hiroshi Kamitakahara

Affiliation Division of Forest and Biomaterials Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Katsumi Doh-ura

doh-ura@med.tohoku.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Neurochemistry, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Itoham Foods Inc. and Tohoku University hold a patent (WO2007123187 A1) on medicinal chemicals associated with cellulose ethers, and KD is the inventor of the patent.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KD. Data curation: KD KT. Funding acquisition: KD. Investigation: KD AO KT KN MK YS. Project administration: KD. Resources: HK. Validation: MK AO KN. Writing – original draft: KD. Writing – review & editing: KD KT KN HK AO YS.