Taira, Tetsuhiko
Yoh, Kiyotaka
Nagase, Seisuke
Kubota, Kaoru
Ohmatsu, Hironobu
Niho, Seiji
Onozawa, Masakatsu
Akimoto, Tetsuo
Ohe, Yuichiro
Goto, Koichi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
Article History
Received: 25 August 2017
Accepted: 26 January 2018
First Online: 31 January 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: TT has received personal fees from Taiho Pharmaceutical and Boehringer Ingelheim. KY has received personal fees from Taiho Pharmaceutical, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chugai phamaceutical, Eli Lilly, and ONO Pharmaceutical. KK has received personal fees from Taiho Pharmaceutical. SN has received grants from Taiho Pharmaceutical, and grants and personal fees from AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, and grants from Pfizer, and personal fees from Bristol-Myers Squibb, MSD, and ONO Pharmaceutical. YO has received grant and personal fees from Taiho Pharmaceutical, AstraZeneca, ONO Pharmaceutical, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chugai phamaceutical, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, MSD, and Novartis Pharma, and grant from Kyorin Pharmaceutical, Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma, and personal fees from Daiichi-Sankyo, Nippon Kayaku, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Bayer. KG has received grants and personal fees from Taiho Pharmaceutical, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chugai phamaceutical, Daiichi-Sankyo, Eli Lilly, MSD, Novartis Pharma, ONO Pharmaceutical, Pfizer, Kyowa Hakko Kirin, Merck Serono, RIKEN GENESIS, and GlaxoSmithKline, and grants from Eisai, Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma, Takeda Pharmaceutical, Oxonc, Astellas Pharma, Amgen Astellas BioPharma, AbbVie Stemcentrx, and Ignyta, and personal fees from ABBOTT JAPAN, Quintiles, Life Technologies Japan, and SRL. All remaining authors declare no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.