Mukai, Rieko
Handa, Osamu
Naito, Yuji
Takayama, Shun
Suyama, Yosuke
Ushiroda, Chihiro
Majima, Atsushi
Hirai, Yasuko
Mizushima, Katsura
Okayama, Tetsuya
Katada, Kazuhiro
Kamada, Kazuhiro
Uchiyama, Kazuhiko
Ishikawa, Takeshi
Takagi, Tomohisa
Itoh, Yoshito
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (16675576)
the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan (16824414)
Article History
Received: 14 May 2019
Accepted: 9 November 2019
First Online: 14 November 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Yuji Naito received a scholarship fund from EA Pharma. Co. Ltd. and collaboration research fund from Fujifilm Medical Co., Ltd. and has been paid lecture fees by Janssen Pharma K.K., Mylan EPD Co., Takeda Pharma. Co. Ltd., Mochida Pharma. Co. Ltd., EA Pharma. Co. Ltd., Otsuka Pharma. Co. Ltd., Astellas Pharma. Co. Ltd., and Miyarisan Pharma. Co. Ltd. The research was partly funded by these funds. Neither the funding agency nor any outside organization has participated in study design or has any competing of interest. These companies had final approval of the manuscript.
: All experiments were carried out in accordance with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines for the use of experimental animals, and the protocols were approved (Approval No. M29-535) by the Animal Care Committee of the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine (Kyoto, Japan).