Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (26463192)
Article History
Received: 13 September 2019
Revised: 9 April 2020
Accepted: 7 May 2020
First Online: 27 May 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
: All experiments were approved by the Meikai University Animal Ethics Committee and the Animal Experimentation Committee at Nihon University and were carried out according to the National Institute of Health Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.
: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving animals were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institution where the experiments were performed.