Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (16K07545)
Article History
Received: 22 April 2019
Accepted: 18 June 2019
First Online: 25 June 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: This study was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 16K07545). Yoko Komada and Yuichi Inoue have received grant support from Merck & Co., Inc., Eisai Co., Ltd, and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Isa Okajima has received lecture fees from Otsuka Pharmaceutical, MSD and Takeda Pharmaceutical, and research funding from NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd. Shingo Kitamura has received lecture fees from Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., and research funding from Boehringer Ingelheim Japan, Inc. and VELDT Inc.
: This study was approved by the ethics committee of Tokyo Medical University (no. 3307).