Aoki, Tomohiro http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1578-1394
Koseki, Hirokazu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2939-7182
Miyata, Haruka
Itoh, Masayoshi
Kawaji, Hideya http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0575-0308
Takizawa, Katsumi
Kawashima, Akitsugu
Ujiie, Hiroshi
Higa, Takashi
Minamimura, Kenzo
Kimura, Toshikazu
Kasuya, Hidetoshi
Nozaki, Kazuhiko
Morita, Akio http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2497-5772
Sano, Hirotoshi http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7802-924X
Narumiya, Shuh
Article History
Received: 4 December 2018
Accepted: 8 July 2019
First Online: 17 July 2019
Competing Interests
: This work was supported in part by Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology Program (CREST) on ‘Mechanobiology’ from the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) (#JP18gm0810006, T.A.) and by the Coordination Fund from the Japanese Ministry for Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and Astellas Pharma Inc. to Kyoto University (T.A. and S.N.). S.N. is supported by the Coordination Fund from MEXT and Astellas Pharma Inc. and T.A. was supported until 31<sup>th</sup>/March/2017. S.N. is a scientific advisor to Astellas Pharma. No potential conflicts of interest were disclosed by the other authors.