Yasuda, Jumpei
Fukui, Kana
Okada, Muneyoshi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0746-206X
Yamawaki, Hideyuki
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP16J07684)
Article History
Received: 6 March 2017
Accepted: 27 July 2017
First Online: 7 August 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
: All animal experiments were approved by the President of Kitasato University through the judgment by Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Kitasato University (Approval no. 15-047, 16-032 and 16-057). Adult male Wistar rats (4–10 weeks old, CLEA Japan, Tokyo, Japan) were cared in accordance with the National Institutes of Health Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and the guidelines for animal care and treatment of the Kitasato University.