Yamaguchi, Takahisa
Fushida, Sachio
Yamamoto, Yasuhiko
Tsukada, Tomoya
Kinoshita, Jun
Oyama, Katsunobu
Miyashita, Tomoharu
Tajima, Hidehiro
Ninomiya, Itasu
Munesue, Seiichi
Harashima, Ai
Harada, Shinichi
Yamamoto, Hiroshi
Ohta, Tetsuo
Article History
Received: 17 September 2015
Accepted: 13 November 2015
First Online: 30 November 2015
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions. Informed consent or substitute for it was obtained from all patients for their being included in the study (study number 1463).
: All institutional and national guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals were followed. Animals were treated in accordance with the Fundamental Guidelines for Proper Conduct of Animal Experiment and Related Activities in Academic Research Institutions, under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan. All animal experiments were approved by the Committee on Animal Experimentation of Kanazawa University.