Araki, Kota
Kinoshita, Rie
Tomonobu, Nahoko
Gohara, Yuma
Tomida, Shuta
Takahashi, Yuta
Senoo, Satoru
Taniguchi, Akihiko
Itano, Junko
Yamamoto, Ken-ichi
Murata, Hitoshi
Suzawa, Ken
Shien, Kazuhiko
Yamamoto, Hiromasa
Okazaki, Mikio
Sugimoto, Seiichiro
Ichimura, Kouichi
Nishibori, Masahiro
Miyahara, Nobuaki
Toyooka, Shinichi
Sakaguchi, Masakiyo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0566-4872
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (17H03577, 19H03746)
Smoking Research Foundation
Terumo Foundation for Life Sciences and Arts
Takeda Science Foundation
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (JP20im0210119)
Article History
Received: 19 August 2020
Revised: 12 October 2020
Accepted: 27 October 2020
First Online: 9 November 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.A couple of studies using clinical specimens (tissues and blood samples) were approved by the Okayama Medical School and Hospital’s Research Ethics Committee. The approved numbers are as follows: # 1910-017 and # 1906-033. Informed consent was obtained from individual patients for the use of their materials. Experimental protocols required for the animal studies were approved by the Animal Experiment Committee at Okayama University. The approved numbers are as follows: # OKU-2018901 and # OKU-2019350.