Otobe, Yuhei http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1299-6231
Hiraki, Koji
Hotta, Chiharu
Izawa, Kazuhiro P.
Sakurada, Tsutomu
Shibagaki, Yugo
Article History
Received: 27 August 2018
Accepted: 17 January 2019
First Online: 8 February 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Committee on Human Research of St. Marianna University School of Medicine (IRB approval no. 2691).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in this study.