Yoshii, Daiki https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2519-7711
Shimata, Keita
Yokouchi, Yuji
Komohara, Yoshihiro
Suda, Hiroko
Honda, Masaki
Yamamura, Kenichi
Hibi, Taizo
Inomata, Yukihiro
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (16K11349, 19K18059)
Article History
Received: 12 December 2021
Accepted: 30 January 2022
First Online: 12 February 2022
Declarations
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: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
: All animal experiments were approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee of Kumamoto University and were performed according to the institutional guidelines for ethical animal use (A28-076, A30-004, and A2020-053). The institutional review board at Kumamoto University Hospital approved this retrospective study (#371). This study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Written informed consent was obtained from each patient. All patients with BA were too young to understand the aim of the present study; hence, we obtained consent from their parents.