Hibino, Akinobu
Kondo, Hiroki
Masaki, Hironori
Tanabe, Yoshinari
Sato, Isamu
Takemae, Nobuhiro
Saito, Takehiko
Zaraket, Hassan
Saito, Reiko http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1554-8226
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan
Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Japan
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development
Article History
Received: 18 April 2016
Accepted: 28 September 2016
First Online: 6 October 2016
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Reiko Saito received research grants from Shionogi Co., Ltd. Other authors, Akinobu Hibino, Hiroki Kondo, Hironori Masaki, Yoshinari Tanabe, Isamu Sato, Nobuhiro Takemae, Takehiko Saito, and Hassan Zaraket, declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: 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. This study was approved by the Niigata University Ethics Committee (H23-1178).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.