• Mari Kimoto
  

  Physiological Laboratories, Japan Women’s University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
• Zenro Nihei
  

  Section of Integrative Sensory Physiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
• Jorge L Zeredo
  

  Graduate Program in Health Sciences and Technologies, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil
• Masato S Ota
  

  Laboratory of Biochemistry and Food function, Japan Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan

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