Miyauchi, Akimitsu
Dinavahi, Rajani V.
Crittenden, Daria B.
Yang, Wenjing
Maddox, Judy C.
Hamaya, Etsuro
Nakamura, Yoichi
Libanati, Cesar
Grauer, Andreas
Shimauchi, Junichiro
Article History
Received: 1 March 2019
Accepted: 18 May 2019
First Online: 5 June 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: A Miyauchi received a research grant from Amgen Inc.; R Dinavahi, W Yang, and J Maddox are employees and shareholders of Amgen Inc.; DB Crittenden and A Grauer were employees and shareholders of Amgen Inc. at the time this study was conducted; E Hamaya is an employee of Amgen Astellas Biopharma KK and a shareholder of Amgen Inc.; Y Nakamura is an employee of Amgen Astellas Biopharma K.K. and shareholder of Astellas Pharma Inc.; J Shimauchi is an employee of Amgen Astellas Biopharma KK; and C Libanati is an employee and shareholder of UCB Pharma.
: 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. An independent ethics committee or institutional review board approved the study design for each center.
: Informed consent was obtained from each subject.