Zhang, Wei
Ishida, Yuko http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6104-7599
Nosaka, Mizuho
Kuninaka, Yumi
Ishigami, Akiko
Yasuda, Haruki
Kofuna, Ayumi
Kamata, Ten
Goto, Utako
Kondo, Toshikazu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5059-8309
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (22K19676, 23K17445)
Article History
Received: 22 August 2023
Accepted: 13 March 2024
First Online: 23 March 2024
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Wakayama Medical University (No. 3229). All the procedures were performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki Principles. Moreover, this study was conducted using autopsy records from the past, and we could not obtain informed consent from the bereaved family for the use of these records. Therefore, we conducted this study in accordance with the “Ethical Guidelines for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects (enacted by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare in Japan), Sects. 12–1(2) (a) (c).” This was a de-identified study using archived tissue obtained from judicial autopsy cases, and the information on the implementation of the study was posted on our website (). If there was a request to refuse the use of the samples for research, they were excluded from samples of this study. In addition, the review board of the Research Ethics Committee of Wakayama Medical University waived the need for written informed consent from the relatives of the individuals studied in accordance with the national legislation and the institutional requirements.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.