About the Authors

Yohei Mima

Contributed equally to this work with: Yohei Mima, Shinya Fukumoto

Affiliation Department of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Molecular Medicine, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Shinya Fukumoto

Contributed equally to this work with: Yohei Mima, Shinya Fukumoto

sfukumoto@med.osaka-cu.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Molecular Medicine, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Hidenori Koyama

Affiliation Department of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Molecular Medicine, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Masahiro Okada

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology, Kinki University, Wakayama, Japan

Shinji Tanaka

Affiliation Department of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Molecular Medicine, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Tetsuo Shoji

Affiliation Department of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Molecular Medicine, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Masanori Emoto

Affiliation Department of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Molecular Medicine, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Tsutomu Furuzono

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology, Kinki University, Wakayama, Japan

Yoshiki Nishizawa

Affiliation Department of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Molecular Medicine, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Masaaki Inaba

Affiliation Department of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Molecular Medicine, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SF TF YN MI. Performed the experiments: YM SF HK MO ST. Analyzed the data: YM SF HK MO ST TS ME TF YN MI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YM SF MO TF. Wrote the paper: YM SF HK MO TF MI.