Nishikawa, Kazuhiro http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1213-2732
Murotani, Kenta
Fujitani, Kazumasa
Inagaki, Hitoshi
Akamaru, Yusuke
Tokunaga, Shinya
Takagi, Masakazu
Tamura, Shigeyuki
Sugimoto, Naotoshi
Shigematsu, Tadashi
Yoshikawa, Takaki
Ishiguro, Tohru
Nakamura, Masato
Hasegawa, Hiroko
Morita, Satoshi
Miyashita, Yumi
Tsuburaya, Akira
Sakamoto, Junichi
Tsujinaka, Toshimasa
Article History
Received: 15 October 2018
Accepted: 22 February 2019
First Online: 26 February 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Kazuhiro Nishikawa has received honoraria from Chugai, Taiho, Yakult, Eli Lilly, Tsumura, and EA Pharma, and research funding from Yakult and Taiho, outside the submitted work. Takaki Yoshikawa has received lecture fees from Chugai, Taiho, Yakult, Eli Lilly and Ono, and for advisory work for Ono and MSD, outside the submitted work. Masato Nakamura has received honoraria from Chugai, Taiho, Merk, Takeda, Yakult, Eli Lilly, Bayer, Ono, and Otsuka Pharma, outside the submitted work. Satoshi Morita has received honoraria from Chugai and Taiho, outside the submitted work. Junichi Sakamoto has received consultant fee from Takeda, and Honoraria from Tsumura, Nihon Kayaku, and Chugai, outside the submitted work. All remaining authors have declared no conflicts of interest to declare.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.