Obokata, Masaru
Kurosawa, Koji
Ishida, Hideki
Ito, Kyoko
Ogawa, Tetsuya
Ando, Yoshitaka
Kurabayashi, Masahiko
Negishi, Kazuaki
Funding for this research was provided by:
Kureha Corporation (N/A)
Article History
Received: 17 May 2018
Revised: 28 June 2018
Accepted: 29 June 2018
First Online: 7 July 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Dr. Obokata received research funding from Kureha Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. The sponsor was not involved in the study design, data collection, analysis and interpretation, and preparation of manuscript. Dr. Negishi was supported by an award from the Select Foundation, which has no role in the preparation of this manuscript. Drs. Kurosawa, Ishida, Ito, Ogawa, Ando, and Kurabayashi declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later revisions.
: Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.