Isaka, Yoshitaka http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0820-7167
Fujii, Hideki
Tsujimoto, Yoshihiro
Teramukai, Satoshi
Hamano, Takayuki
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Academic Research Forum, KISSEI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
Article History
Received: 21 June 2017
Accepted: 9 January 2018
First Online: 13 March 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Y.I. & Y.T. received lecture fee and fees for the chairperson from Kissei Pharmaceutical Co.Ltd. and Bayer Yakuhin Ltd. T.H, received lecture fee from Kissei Pharmaceutical Co.Ltd. and Bayer Yakuhin Ltd. H.F. received lecture fees and grants from Kissei Pharmaceutical Co.Ltd. and Bayer Yakuhin Ltd. S.T. received research grants from Kissei Pharmaceutical Co.Ltd. None of the data presented has been published in whole or in part.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants will be in accordance with the ethical standards of the Osaka University Hospital clinical research committee (IRB approval number: 16112-5) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.