Ebina, Kosuke https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2426-1024
Etani, Yuki https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5741-5969
Tsuboi, Hideki
Nagayama, Yoshio
Kashii, Masafumi
Miyama, Akira
Kunugiza, Yasuo
Hirao, Makoto https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1408-7851
Okamura, Gensuke
Noguchi, Takaaki
Takami, Kenji
Goshima, Atsushi
Miura, Taihei
Fukuda, Yuji
Kurihara, Takuya
Okada, Seiji https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5107-8209
Nakata, Ken https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8964-4229
Article History
Received: 22 June 2022
Accepted: 30 August 2022
First Online: 6 September 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.