Nakayama, Kyosuke https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4769-8958
Saito, Yuri
Sanbongi, Chiaki
Murata, Koichiro
Urashima, Tadasu
Article History
Received: 5 March 2020
Accepted: 5 June 2020
First Online: 10 June 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: KN, YS and CS are employees of Meiji Co., Ltd.
: The procedures in this study were approved by the Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Institutional Review Board of Clinical Research (Hokkaido, Japan) and the Meiji Institutional Review Board (Tokyo, Japan). It was conducted in accordance with ethical principles laid down by the Declaration of Helsinki and Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects (Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Japan). Written informed consent was obtained from each participant before randomization.