About the Authors

Yasunaga Yoshikawa

yyoshika@vmas.kitasato-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Laboratory of Veterinary Biochemistry, School of Veterinary Medicine, Kitasato University, Aomori, Japan

Kazuhiko Ochiai

Affiliation Department of Basic Science, School of Veterinary Nursing and Technology, Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University, Tokyo, Japan

Masami Morimatsu

Affiliation Division of Disease Model Innovation, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Yu Suzuki

Affiliation Laboratory of Veterinary Biochemistry, School of Veterinary Medicine, Kitasato University, Aomori, Japan

Seiichi Wada

Affiliation Laboratory of Veterinary Radiology and Radiation Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Kitasato University, Aomori, Japan

Takahiro Taoda

Affiliation Laboratory of Small Animal Surgery 2, School of Veterinary Medicine, Kitasato University, Aomori, Japan

Satomi Iwai

Affiliation Laboratory of Small Animal Surgery 1, School of Veterinary Medicine, Kitasato University, Aomori, Japan

Seishiro Chikazawa

Affiliation Laboratory of Small Animal Internal Medicine 2, School of Veterinary Medicine, Kitasato University, Aomori, Japan

Koichi Orino

Affiliation Laboratory of Veterinary Biochemistry, School of Veterinary Medicine, Kitasato University, Aomori, Japan

Kiyotaka Watanabe

Affiliation Laboratory of Veterinary Biochemistry, School of Veterinary Medicine, Kitasato University, Aomori, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YY K. Ochiai MM K. Orino KW. Performed the experiments: YY YS SW TT SI SC. Analyzed the data: YY K. Ochiai MM K. Orino KW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YY K. Ochiai MM SW TT SI SC. Wrote the paper: YY.