Guo, Xiaoguang
Kashihara, Toshihide
Nakada, Tsutomu
Aoyama, Toshifumi
Yamada, Mitsuhiko https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7515-3824
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (16K08546)
Shinshu Public Utility Foundation for Promotion of Medical Sciences (NA)
Article History
Received: 6 December 2017
Revised: 6 January 2018
Accepted: 19 January 2018
First Online: 13 February 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: This study was supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (grant number 16K08546) to T.K. from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan and a grant to M.Y. from Shinshu Public Utility Foundation for Promotion of Medical Sciences.
: All animals used in the present study received humane care in compliance with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals published by the US National Institutes of Health. All experimental procedures were performed in accordance with the Guidelines for Animal Experimentation of Shinshu University and approved by the Committee for Animal Experimentation (Approval number 260017).