Osaka, Rie
Muraoka, Yuki
Nagasato, Daisuke
Mitamura, Yoshinori
Nishigori, Naomi
Murakami, Tomoaki
Suzuma, Kiyoshi
Tabuchi, Hitoshi
Tsujikawa, Akitaka
Article History
Received: 21 July 2022
Accepted: 22 April 2023
First Online: 25 May 2023
Declarations
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: Yuki Muraoka received a grant and financial support from Bayer Yakuhin, Novartis Pharma, Canon, Alcon Japan, Santen Pharmaceutical, Senju Pharmaceutical, and AMO Japan. Yoshinori Mitamura received financial support from Santen Pharmaceutical, AMO Japan, Senju Pharmaceutical, Alcon Japan, Otsuka Pharmaceutical and HOYA. Tomoaki Murakami received grants and financial support from Bayer Yakuhin, Kowa Pharmaceutical, Alcon Pharma, Novartis Pharma, AMO Japan, Santen Pharmaceutical, Alcon Japan, and Senju Pharmaceutical. Kiyoshi Suzuma has received grants and financial support from Pfizer, Novartis Pharma, Bayer Yakuhin, Alcon Japan, Santen Pharmaceutical, Senju Pharmaceutical, Kowa, HOYA, and AMO Japan. Akitaka Tsujikawa received grants and financial support from Canon, Findex, Santen Pharmaceutical, Kowa Pharmaceutical, Pfizer, AMO Japan, Senju Pharmaceutical, Wakamoto Pharmaceutical, Alcon Japan, Alcon Pharma, Otsuka Pharmaceutical, Tomey Corporation, Taiho Pharma, HOYA, Bayer Yakuhin, Novartis Pharma, Chugai Pharmaceutical, Astellas, Eisai, Daiichi-Sankyo, Janssen Pharmaceutical, Kyoto Drug Discovery & Development, Allergan Japan, MSD, Ellex, Sanwa Kagaku Kenkyusho, Nitten Pharmaceutical, and AbbVie GK. Rie Osaka, Daisuke Nagasato, Naomi Nishigori, and Hitoshi Tabuchi declare no potential conflicts of interest. None of the aforementioned funding sources were involved in the design, conduct, preparation, or writing of this study or the manuscript.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the Ethics Committees of the Kagawa University Faculty of Medicine (Kagawa, Japan), Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine (Kyoto, Japan), Tokushima University Faculty of Medicine (Tokushima, Japan), and Saneikai Tsukazaki Hospital (Hyogo, Japan).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: Not applicable.