Asahina, Yuichi
Hinata, Munetoshi
Tanaka, Asami
Oshio, Kaori
Ogawa, Haruki
Aihara, Makoto
Onodera, Hiroshi
Ushiku, Tetsuo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1763-8380
Funding for this research was provided by:
The University of Tokyo
Article History
Received: 1 November 2023
Accepted: 1 March 2024
First Online: 18 March 2024
Declarations
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: The authors declare no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, or publication of this article.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions. Informed consent or substitute for it was obtained from all patients for being included in the study. The study was approved by the institutional ethics committee, which included members from outside the institution (The Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Tokyo. Approval Number: 2021281NI).