Kikusaki, Satoshi
Takagi, Kazuyoshi
Shojima, Takahiro
Saku, Kosuke
Fukuda, Tomofumi
Oryoji, Atsunobu
Anegawa, Tomoyuki
Fukumoto, Yoshihiro
Aoki, Hiroki http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9578-3188
Tanaka, Hiroyuki
Article History
Received: 16 July 2020
Accepted: 23 December 2020
First Online: 8 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: We declare that a donation was received by the Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kurume University School of Medicine from TERUMO (Tokyo, Japan), the manufacturer of DHG that was used in this study. The donation was not used for the current research project, and TERUMO had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results. The authors have no other potential conflicts of interest.
: The experimental protocol was approved by the Animal Experiment Committee of the Kurume University School of Medicine in accordance with the Guidelines for Proper Conduct of Animal Experiments by the Science Council of Japan. Animal care and usage were in compliance with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals issued by the Institute of Animal Experimentation of Kurume University School of Medicine.