Koide, Hiroyoshi
Tsujimoto, Masayuki http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1325-8329
Katsube, Yurie
Ochiai, Megumi
Hojo, Ayako
Furukubo, Taku
Izumi, Satoshi
Yamakawa, Tomoyuki
Shima, Daisuke
Minegaki, Tetsuya
Nishiguchi, Kohshi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (15K08601)
Article History
Received: 30 November 2017
Accepted: 16 April 2018
First Online: 24 April 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The study was approved by the Ethics Community of Shirasagi Hospital and Kyoto Pharmaceutical University (Ethics Committee approval number: 08-04). All procedures performed in the present study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments.
: This type of study formal consent is not required, because the pooled human serum was obtained from residual blood samples which were collected for clinical routine test and personal information was anonymized. Opt-out was practiced as an acceptable method of obtaining consent in this study.