About the Authors
- Yoko Honda
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Affiliation Department of Genomics for Longevity and Health, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Sakaecho, Itabashiku, Tokyo, Japan
- Yasunori Fujita
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Affiliation Department of Longevity and Aging Research, Gifu International Institute of Biotechnology, Naka-fudogaoka, Kakamigahara, Gifu, Japan
- Hiroe Maruyama
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Affiliation API Company Limited, Nagaragawa Research Center, Nagarayamasaki, Gifu, Japan
- Yoko Araki
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Affiliation API Company Limited, Nagaragawa Research Center, Nagarayamasaki, Gifu, Japan
- Kenji Ichihara
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Affiliation API Company Limited, Nagaragawa Research Center, Nagarayamasaki, Gifu, Japan
- Akira Sato
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Affiliation Computational Systems Biology Research Group, Advanced Science Institute, RIKEN, Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Toshio Kojima
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Affiliations Computational Systems Biology Research Group, Advanced Science Institute, RIKEN, Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Handayama, Higashi-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan
- Masashi Tanaka
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Affiliation Department of Genomics for Longevity and Health, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Sakaecho, Itabashiku, Tokyo, Japan
- Yoshinori Nozawa
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Affiliations Department of Longevity and Aging Research, Gifu International Institute of Biotechnology, Naka-fudogaoka, Kakamigahara, Gifu, Japan, Department of Food and Health, Tokai Gakuin University, Naka-kirinocho, Kakamigahara, Gifu, Japan
- Masafumi Ito
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Affiliation Department of Longevity and Aging Research, Gifu International Institute of Biotechnology, Naka-fudogaoka, Kakamigahara, Gifu, Japan
- Shuji Honda
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* E-mail: hondas@center.tmig.or.jp
Affiliation Department of Genomics for Longevity and Health, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Sakaecho, Itabashiku, Tokyo, Japan
Competing Interests
HM, YA and KI are employees of API Co., which engages in the manufacture and sale of royal jelly products and also provided the royal jelly used in this study. This is to confirm that the declaration does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SH YH YF HM YA KI MI. Performed the experiments: YH YF HM SH YA AS TK MI. Analyzed the data: YH SH YF HM YA KI AS TK MT YN MI. Wrote the paper: SH YH MI YF HM YA KI TK.