Yamamoto-Fukuda, Tomomi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4168-6315
Akiyama, Naotaro
Takahashi, Masahiro
Kojima, Hiromi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP25462647)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP16K11186)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP26462608)
Article History
Received: 17 September 2017
Accepted: 28 February 2018
First Online: 16 March 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
: All experiments were conducted according to the principles and procedures outlined in the guidelines for animal experimentation of Nagasaki University with the approval of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (Nos. 1209241015-2 and 1404011269). This study protocol was approved by the Human Ethics Review Committee of Jikei University School of Medicine, and signed informed consent was obtained from all the patients or their guardians for this study (approval number is 27-344 8229).
: This study is supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japanese Society for the Promotor of Science (JSPS) (no. 25462647 and JP16K11186 to T. Yamamoto-Fukuda, no. JP26462608 to N. Akiyama).