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6. Acknowledgments
I thank my laboratory members for critically reading this manuscript and for their technical
assistance with the experiments. Especially, I would like to express my greatest appreciation
to Professor Shinya Kuroda for teaching principles of scientific research throughout my
graduate study. This thesis is the result of the joint research of Mr. Mitustaka Wataya, Dr.
Miki Eto, Dr. Daisuke Hoshino, Dr. Katsuyuki Kunida and me in the experiments of
differentiated C2C12 myotubes, and Dr. Haruki Inoue, Mr. Mitustaka Wataya, Dr. Masashi
Fujii and me in image analysis, Dr. ken-ichi Hironaka, Mr. Mitustaka Wataya, Dr. Masashi
Fujii, Dr. Shinsuke Uda, Dr. Hiroyuki Kubota and me in computational analysis, Mr. Hiroki
Hamaguchi, Dr. Yasuro Furuichi, Dr. Yasuko Manabe, and Dr. Nobuharu L. Fujii in Tokyo
Metropolitan University in the experiments of isolated skeletal muscle fibers, Dr. Tsuguto
Takizawa, Dr. Yasuaki Karasawa, Dr. Hirofumi.Nakatomi, and Dr. Nobuhito Saito in Tokyo
University Hospital in intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring. This manuscript was
edited by Nancy R. Gough (BioSerendipity, LLC).
This work was supported by the Creation of Fundamental Technologies for Understanding
and Control of Biosystem Dynamics, CREST (JPMJCR12W3) from the Japan Science and
Technology Agency (JST) and by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
KAKENHI Grant Number (JP17H06299, JP17H06300, JP18H03979, JP19K22860).
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