Article Information
- Received March 15, 2011
- Revision received September 26, 2011
- Accepted October 1, 2011
- First published November 9, 2011.
- Version of record published November 9, 2011.
Author Information
- Peng Sun1,2,3,*,
- Furong Wang1,2,4,*,
- Li Wang1,5,*,
- Yu Zhang1,2,6,
- Ryo Yamamoto1,
- Tokio Sugai1,
- Qing Zhang1,2,3,
- Zhengda Wang1, and
- Nobuo Kato1,2
- 1Department of Physiology and
- 2Medical Research Institute, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan,
- 3Union Hospital and
- 4Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China,
- 5China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing 100029, China, and
- 6Medical College of Qinghai University, Xining 810001, China
Author contributions
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Author contributions: P.S. and N.K. designed research; P.S., F.W., L.W., Y.Z., R.Y., T.S., Q.Z., Z.W., and N.K. performed research; P.S., F.W., L.W., R.Y., T.S., and N.K. analyzed data; N.K. wrote the paper.
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↵*P.S., F.W., and L.W. contributed equally to this work.
Disclosures
- Received March 15, 2011.
- Revision received September 26, 2011.
- Accepted October 1, 2011.
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This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (22500360) from the Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences, Grants for Collaborative Research (C2006-5, C2007-2), and High-Tech Research (H2008-14, H2009-14, and H2010-14) from Kanazawa Medical University and a Grant from the Science Research Promotion Fund of the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan. We express our gratitude to Dr. H. Nishijo (Toyama University, Toyama, Japan) and Dr. K. Yamada (Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan) for advice. We also thank H. Adachi, S. Muramoto, and K. Yamada for their assistance.
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The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Nobuo Kato, Department of Physiology, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan. kato{at}kanazawa-med.ac.jp
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