Ebina, K. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2426-1024
Etani, Y.
Tsuboi, H.
Nagayama, Y.
Kashii, M.
Miyama, A.
Kunugiza, Y.
Hirao, M. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1408-7851
Okamura, G.
Noguchi, T.
Takami, K.
Goshima, A.
Miura, T.
Fukuda, Y.
Kurihara, T.
Okada, S.
Nakata, K. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8964-4229
Article History
Received: 8 December 2021
Accepted: 25 March 2022
First Online: 1 April 2022
Declarations
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: 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.
: KE is affiliated with the Department of Musculoskeletal Regenerative Medicine, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, which is supported by Taisho. KE and MH have received research grants from Amgen, Asahi-Kasei, Astellas, Chugai, Daiichi Sankyo, Eisai, Eli Lilly, and Ono. KE has received payments for lectures from Amgen, Asahi-Kasei, Astellas, Chugai, Daiichi Sankyo, Eisai, Eli Lilly, Ono, and Pfizer. HT has received a research grant from Chugai and has received payments for lectures from Asahi-Kasei, Astellas, Chugai, Eisai, Eli Lilly, and Pfizer. YN has received payments for lectures from Asahi-Kasei, Astellas, Chugai, Daiichi Sankyo, Eisai, Eli Lilly, and Ono. MK has received payments for lectures from Asahi-Kasei and Astellas. KN has received a research grant from Astellas and supervises the Department of Musculoskeletal Regenerative Medicine, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, which is supported by Taisho. YE, AM, YK, GO, TN, KT, AG, TM, YF, TK, and SO declare that they have no conflicts of interest. The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or manuscript preparation.