Watanabe, Yohei http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7740-1361
Saito, Yuki http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4115-6509
Hara, Taeko http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1105-0524
Tsukuda, Naoki http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4660-8498
Aiyama-Suzuki, Yoshimi
Tanigawa-Yahagi, Kana http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9647-2552
Kurakawa, Takashi
Moriyama-Ohara, Kaoru
Matsumoto, Satoshi
Matsuki, Takahiro http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7777-1602
Article History
Received: 27 April 2021
Revised: 10 October 2021
Accepted: 12 October 2021
First Online: 28 October 2021
Competing interests
: This work was funded by the Yakult Central Institute. The funder provided support in the form of salaries for all authors, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis or preparation of the manuscript. Yakult Central Institute is the owner of a patent application based on some of the results presented, which names YW, YS, TH, YA-S and TM as inventors.