About the Authors

Xiaoqing Pan

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

Norio Suzuki

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

Ikuo Hirano

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

Shun Yamazaki

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

Naoko Minegishi

Affiliation School of Nursing, Miyagi University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Masayuki Yamamoto

masiyamamoto@med.tohoku.ac.jp

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XP NS MY. Performed the experiments: XP IH SY. Analyzed the data: XP IH SY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XP NS IH SY. Wrote the paper: XP NS NM MY.