About the Authors

Wei-Guang Ding

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei-Guang Ding, Yu Xie

ding@belle.shiga-med.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Yu Xie

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei-Guang Ding, Yu Xie

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Futoshi Toyoda

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Hiroshi Matsuura

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WGD YX. Performed the experiments: WGD YX FT HM. Analyzed the data: WGD YX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WGD YX. Wrote the paper: WGD YX HM.