Shimizu, Yuji https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3381-9288
Yamanashi, Hirotomo
Noguchi, Yuko
Koyamatsu, Jun
Higashi, Miho
Fukui, Shoichi
Kawashiri, Shin-Ya
Arima, Kazuhiko
Takamura, Noboru
Maeda, Takahiro
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (17H03740, 18K06448)
Article History
Received: 5 June 2019
Accepted: 17 February 2020
First Online: 10 March 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
:
: The author did not have any conflict of interest to declare.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institution research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments for comparable ethical standards. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (Project Registration Number 14051404).
: Written consent forms were available in Japanese to ensure comprehensive understanding of the study objectives, and informed consent was provided by the participants.