Kato, Hiroyuki
Volterman, Kimberly A.
West, Daniel W. D.
Suzuki, Katsuya
Moore, Daniel R.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ajinomoto Co. Inc.
Article History
Received: 12 June 2018
Accepted: 22 August 2018
First Online: 25 August 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Some of the authors (HK and KS) are employees of Ajinomoto. DRM has received research grant from Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
: 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. This study was approved by the research ethics board of the University of Toronto (No. 33245) and the institutional review board of Ajinomoto Co., Inc (No. 2016-017). This trial was registered at clinicaltrial.gov as NCT02874638.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study, after informing the purpose of the study, the experimental procedures involved and all the potential risks involved.