Ozaki-Honda, Yuu
Seki, Sachiko
Fujiwara, Mutsunori
Matsuura, Masaaki
Fujita, Shuichi
Ikeda, Hisazumi
Umeda, Masahiro
Ayuse, Takao
Ikeda, Tohru https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3615-5421
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (25462865)
Article History
Received: 16 August 2017
Accepted: 19 October 2017
First Online: 2 November 2017
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare that they have no potential conflicts of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee, and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its latter amendments or comparable ethical standards. Nagasaki University Hospital Ethics Committee Approval No.: 17,022,746.
: Written informed consent was not used and information regarding this study was disclosed on the website of Nagasaki University Clinical Research Center and assured the right for refusal to use samples and clinical information. Some of the subjects were already passed away and refusal by the proxy of the subject was also permitted.