Kitazawa, Sohei https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7466-7356
Takeshita, Eiji
Tomida, Hideomi
Miyake, Teruki
Ikeda, Yoshio
Bekku, Seiya
Haraguchi, Ryuma
Takaoka, Yuki
Ohno, Teruyuki
Taniwaki, Mashio
Hiasa, Yoichi
Kitazawa, Riko
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP 24K02251, JP22K06981)
NOVARTIS Foundation (Japan) for the Promotion of Science (JP 24K10000)
Article History
Received: 12 April 2025
Revised: 23 September 2025
Accepted: 4 October 2025
First Online: 20 October 2025
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine, Ehime University (Approval No. 2311001).
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The funders had no role in the design of the study, in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; or in the decision to publish the results.