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Tsuchimoto, Akihiro
Masutani, Kosuke
Omoto, Kazuya
Okumi, Masayoshi
Okabe, Yasuhiro
Nishiki, Takehiro
Ota, Morihito
Nakano, Toshiaki
Tsuruya, Kazuhiko
Kitazono, Takanari
Nakamura, Masafumi
Ishida, Hideki
Tanabe, Kazunari
Funding for this research was provided by:
Astellas Pharma
Article History
Received: 8 June 2018
Accepted: 13 November 2018
First Online: 24 December 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Potential financial conflicts of interest: Astellas Pharma Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) supported this study and Kazunari Tanabe with a grant. The sponsor was not involved in the study design, patient enrolment, data collection, analysis, interpretation, or preparation of the manuscript.
: 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 UMIN000018327) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.