Yoshida, Yusuke
Yamasaki, Satoshi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9437-3697
Oi, Katsuhiro
Kuranobu, Tatsuomi
Nojima, Takaki
Miyaki, Shigeru
Ida, Hiroaki
Sugiyama, Eiji
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (26461463, 23591439)
Article History
First Online: 28 June 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
: RA-FLS purchased from Articular Engineering were isolated from synovial tissues harvested from post-<i>mortem</i> donors with a clinical diagnosis of RA with anonymous informed written consent from the donor or a nearest relative. The company obtained the synovial tissues according to the legal and ethical requirements of the country of collection (approval of an ethics committee, institutional review board, or state license). OA-FLS and normal FLS were obtained from human knee joints at the time of autopsy from donors, with the approval of the Scripps Human Subjects Committee. Synovial tissue samples were obtained from patients with RA with approval of the Ethics Committee of the Nagasaki University (Nagasaki, Japan).
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.