Nishikage, Tomoko
Yamamoto, Hiroyoshi
Fukumoto, Naoe
Takahashi, Kayo
Ota, Yukie
Kusaki, Hanae
Aoyagi, Rina
Beppu, Shintaro
Article History
Received: 25 December 2022
Revised: 18 April 2023
Accepted: 17 May 2023
First Online: 1 June 2023
Declarations
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: The authors (Tomoko Nishikage, Hiroyoshi Yamamoto, Naoe Fukumoto, Kayo Takahashi, Yukie Ota, Hanae Kusaki, Rina Aoyagi, and Shintaro Beppu) report no financial relationships nor conflicts of interest regarding the content of this paper. There was no funding agency involved in this research.
: All procedures were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Declaration of Helsinki of 1964 and later revisions. Informed consent was obtained in the form of an opt-out method using a poster presentation. The poster was approved by the Institutional Review Board. The study was approved by the local institute’s ethics committee.