About the Authors
- Shin-ichiro Miura
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Contributed equally to this work with: Shin-ichiro Miura, Yoshihiro Kiya
* E-mail: miuras@cis.fukuoka-u.ac.jp
Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Fukuoka University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan, Department of Molecular Cardiology, Lerner Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, United States of America
- Yoshihiro Kiya
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Contributed equally to this work with: Shin-ichiro Miura, Yoshihiro Kiya
Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Fukuoka University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan
- Hiroyuki Hanzawa
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Affiliation Research & Development Division, Daiichi Sankyo Company, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
- Naoki Nakao
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Affiliation Research & Development Division, Daiichi Sankyo Company, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
- Masahiro Fujino
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Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Fukuoka University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan
- Satoshi Imaizumi
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Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Fukuoka University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan
- Yoshino Matsuo
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Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Fukuoka University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan
- Hiroaki Yanagisawa
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Affiliation Research & Development Division, Daiichi Sankyo Company, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
- Hiroyuki Koike
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Affiliation Research & Development Division, Daiichi Sankyo Company, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
- Issei Komuro
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Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
- Sadashiva S. Karnik
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Cardiology, Lerner Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, United States of America
- Keijiro Saku
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Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Fukuoka University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan
Competing Interests
HH, NN, HY and HK are employed by a commercial company, Daiichi Sankyo Company, Ltd. 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: SM YK. Performed the experiments: YK HH NN MF SI YM. Analyzed the data: SM YK HH HY HK IK SK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SM KS. Wrote the paper: SM.