About the Authors

Munehiro Uemura

Affiliation Evolutionary Medicine, Shiga Medical Center Research Institute, Moriyama, Japan

Youko Niwa

Affiliation Evolutionary Medicine, Shiga Medical Center Research Institute, Moriyama, Japan

Naoki Kakazu

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Preventive Medicine, Shimane University School of Medicine, Izumo, Japan

Noritaka Adachi

Affiliation Graduate School of Nanobioscience, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan

Kazuo Kinoshita

kkinoshi.shigamed@mac.com

Affiliation Evolutionary Medicine, Shiga Medical Center Research Institute, Moriyama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KK. Performed the experiments: MU YN NK KK. Analyzed the data: MU YN KK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NK NA KK. Wrote the paper: KK.