Yasukochi, Yoshiki http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5997-959X
Sakuma, Jun
Takeuchi, Ichiro
Kato, Kimihiko
Oguri, Mitsutoshi
Fujimaki, Tetsuo
Horibe, Hideki
Yamada, Yoshiji
Funding for this research was provided by:
Okasan Kato Culture Promotion Foundation (Research Grant)
Hitachi Global Foundation (Kurata Grant)
Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (JPMRJCR1302)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (17H00758, JP15H04772)
Article History
Received: 7 August 2017
Accepted: 4 November 2017
First Online: 9 November 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: 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. The study protocol was approved by the Committees on the Ethics of Human Research of Mie University Graduate School of Medicine and Inabe General Hospital.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.