Fujisawa, Madoka
Kato, Hideki
Yoshida, Yoko
Usui, Tomoko
Takata, Munenori
Fujimoto, Mika
Wada, Hideo
Uchida, Yumiko
Kokame, Koichi
Matsumoto, Masanori
Fujimura, Yoshihiro
Miyata, Toshiyuki
Nangaku, Masaomi
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare of Japan
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (15K09246, 16K09834)
The Japanese Association for Complement Research
The Takeda Scientific Foundation
The Practical Research Project for Rare/Intractable Diseases from Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, AMED (17ek0109254h0001)
Article History
Received: 1 November 2017
Accepted: 22 February 2018
First Online: 6 March 2018
Change Date: 23 April 2019
Change Type: Correction
Change Date: 23 April 2019
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: The original article can be found online
Change Details: The original article can be found online
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: Yoshihiro Fujimura is a recipient of patent royalty for ADAMTS13 activity-ELISA kits from Alfressa, Honoraria: Hideki Kato and Masaomi Nangaku from Alexion Pharma, Hideo Wada from IL Japan and Alexion Pharma, and Masanori Matsumoto from Asahi Kasei Pharma and Alexion Pharma, Research funding: Masanori Matsumoto from Bayer Yakuhin, Chugai Pharmaceutical, and Asahi Kasei Pharma, Subsidies or Donations: Masaomi Nangaku from Alexion Pharma.
: Ethical approval: all procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee at which the studies were conducted (IRB approval number G10029) 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.