About the Authors
- Timothy Etheridge
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Contributed equally to this work with: Timothy Etheridge, Kanako Nemoto
Affiliation Division of Clinical Physiology, Royal Derby Hospital, University of Nottingham, Derby, England
- Kanako Nemoto
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Contributed equally to this work with: Timothy Etheridge, Kanako Nemoto
Affiliation Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Toko Hashizume
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Affiliation Advanced Engineering Services Co., Ltd., Tsukuba, Japan
- Chihiro Mori
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Affiliation Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Tomoko Sugimoto
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Affiliation ISS Science Project Office, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tsukuba, Japan
- Hiromi Suzuki
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Affiliation Japan Space Forum, Ohtemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Japan
- Keiji Fukui
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Affiliation Japan Space Forum, Ohtemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Japan
- Takashi Yamazaki
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Affiliation ISS Science Project Office, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tsukuba, Japan
- Akira Higashibata
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Affiliation ISS Science Project Office, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tsukuba, Japan
- Nathaniel J. Szewczyk
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* E-mail: ahigashi@ige.tohoku.ac.jp (AH); nathaniel.szewczyk@nottingham.ac.uk (NJS)
Affiliation Division of Clinical Physiology, Royal Derby Hospital, University of Nottingham, Derby, England
- Atsushi Higashitani
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* E-mail: ahigashi@ige.tohoku.ac.jp (AH); nathaniel.szewczyk@nottingham.ac.uk (NJS)
Affiliation Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Advanced Engineering Services Co. Ltd. has a contract with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. They provided support and integrated this spaceflight experiment, and have no commercial purpose in this study. Advanced Engineering Services Co. Ltd. employs Ms Hashizume, and they approve her authorship on this manuscript. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TE KF A. Higashibata NJS A. Higashitani. Performed the experiments: TE KN TH CM TS A. Higashibata NJS A. Higashitani. Analyzed the data: TE KN TH A. Higashibata NJS A. Higashitani. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HS KF TY. Wrote the paper: TE NJS A. Higashitani.