Tanigawa, Hitoshi
Toyoda, Futoshi
Kumagai, Kosuke
Okumura, Noriaki
Maeda, Tsutomu
Matsuura, Hiroshi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1998-0996
Imai, Shinji
Article History
Received: 7 September 2017
Accepted: 14 May 2018
First Online: 29 May 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: This study adheres to the ARRIVE guidelines for reporting animal research [CitationRef removed]. All the animal experiments were conducted in compliance with the protocol that was reviewed by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee and approved by the President of Shiga University of Medical Science (Permit Number: 2015-2-7).
: The funders had no role in the design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving animals were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institution or practice at which the studies were conducted.