Ihara, Fumie
Sakurai, Daiju
Takami, Mariko
Kamata, Toshiko
Kunii, Naoki
Yamasaki, Kazuki
Iinuma, Tomohisa
Nakayama, Toshinori
Motohashi, Shinichiro
Okamoto, Yoshitaka
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (17K16892, 15K10799)
Article History
Received: 26 February 2019
Accepted: 10 October 2019
First Online: 22 October 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Blood samples from all healthy donors and patients were collected only after obtaining written informed consent. All procedures involving human participants were approved on August 2, 2013 by the institutional review board of Chiba University Hospital and were conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. All participants consented to providing their peripheral blood and the use of their specimens and data for research and for publication.