About the Authors

Nami Ozato-Sakurai

Contributed equally to this work with: Nami Ozato-Sakurai, Akikazu Fujita

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Molecular Cell Biology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Akikazu Fujita

Contributed equally to this work with: Nami Ozato-Sakurai, Akikazu Fujita

afujita@agri.kagoshima-u.ac.jp (AF); tfujimot@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp (TF)

Current address: Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Molecular Cell Biology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Toyoshi Fujimoto

afujita@agri.kagoshima-u.ac.jp (AF); tfujimot@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp (TF)

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Molecular Cell Biology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AF TF. Performed the experiments: NO-S AF. Analyzed the data: NO-S AF. Wrote the paper: TF.