Maekawa, Takeru https://orcid.org/0009-0006-9892-0041
Miyake, Toru https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0947-0116
Kojima, Masatsugu
Tani, Soichiro
Matsunaga, Takashi
Nishina, Yusuke
Kaida, Sachiko
Maehira, Hiromitsu
Shimizu, Tomoharu
Tani, Masaji
Article History
Accepted: 3 March 2025
First Online: 15 March 2025
Declarations
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: Animal studies: All animal experiments were carried out in strict accordance with the Guidelines for the Husbandry and Management of Laboratory Animals of the Research Center for Animal Life Science at SUMS, the guidelines of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, and the Standards Relating to the Care and Fundamental Guidelines for Proper Conduct of Animal Experiment and Related Activities in Academic Research Institutions under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. All protocols for the animal experiments were approved by the Shiga University of Medical Science Animal Experiment Committee (approval numbers. 2021–9-3, 2021–9-3H1, 2021–9-3H2, and 2021–9-3H3).
: Informed consent was obtained from the patients and/or guardians.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The protocol for this research project was approved by a suitably constituted Ethics Committee of the institution (Committee of SUMS; approval No. R2020-202). and conformed to the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki.