Honda, Yosuke
Katagiri, Hirohisa
Takahashi, Mitsuru
Murata, Hideki
Wasa, Junji
Hosaka, Seiichi
Ishida, Yuji
Ito, Ichiro
Muramatsu, Koji
Mochizuki, Tohru
Matsuyama, Yukihiro
Yamaguchi, Ken
Article History
Received: 20 September 2018
Accepted: 10 June 2019
First Online: 1 July 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Dr. Ken Yamaguchi is the inventor of the ProGRP assay system, and he holds patents on this method. He receives honoraria for patent royalties from the Advanced Life Science Institute, Inc. (Saitama, Japan), a company distributing reagents to several in vitro diagnostics companies, for constructing the assay system. None of other authors have any conflict of interest to declare.