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Ota, Yukie
Beppu, Shintaro
Nishikage, Tomoko
Yamaoto, Hiroyoshi
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Article History
Received: 18 September 2025
Revised: 16 January 2026
Accepted: 9 February 2026
First Online: 9 March 2026
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: 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 by using a poster presentation. The poster was approved by the Institutional Review Board. The study was approved by the local institute’s ethics committee.
: The authors (Yukie Ota, Shintaro Beppu, Tomoko Nishikage, Hiroyoshi Yamaoto) report no financial relationships nor conflicts of interest regarding the content of this paper. There was no funding agency involved in this research.
