Masamichi Kato

School of Medicine

Hokkaido University

Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Massimo Emilio Mafei

Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology

University of Turin

Turin, Italy

Hideyuki Okano

Advanced Institute of Innovative Technology

Saitama University

Saitama, Japan

Tsukasa Shigemitsu

Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

Contributors

Shoogo Ueno

Department of Biomedical Engineering,

Graduate School of Medicine

Te University of Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan

Kenichi Yamazaki

Central Research Institute of Electric Power

Industry

Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan

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