Inoue, Keisuke
Hano, Kimika
Bunai, Katsuaki
Saigo, Chiemi
Kito, Yusuke
Shibata, Toshiyuki
Takeuchi, Tamotsu
Funding for this research was provided by:
KAKEN (26305035, 15K08361, 15K19051, 17K15642)
Article History
Received: 11 October 2017
Accepted: 10 January 2018
First Online: 19 January 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The need for written informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board of the Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine. Instead, the Institutional Review Board requested us to inform the patients that they could refuse the use of their tissue specimens for this present study, if they did not want to participate. The present study was conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the Helsinki Declaration in 1975, after approval of the Institutional Review Board of the Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine (specific approval number: 28-524).