Asano, Yoshimi
Takeuchi, Tamotsu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4264-3632
Okubo, Hiroshi
Saigo, Chiemi
Kito, Yusuke
Iwata, Yoshinori
Futamura, Manabu
Yoshida, Kazuhiro
Funding for this research was provided by:
KAKEN? (15K08361, 15K19051)
KAKEN (17K15642)
Article History
Received: 21 April 2018
Revised: 10 November 2018
Accepted: 12 December 2018
First Online: 3 January 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
: Paraffin-embedded tissues surgically resected from patients with breast cancer were retrospectively used after diagnosis. The need for written informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board of the Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine. Instead, the Institutional Review Board requested us to inform the patients that they could refuse the use of their tissue specimens for this study if they did not want to participate in the present study. The experimental protocol to obtain the antibodies was approved by the Animal Care Committee of Gifu University. The present study was conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the Helsinki Declaration in 1975, after approval of the Institutional Review Board of the Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine (specific approval number 25–81).
: The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.