Ogasawara, Sadahisa
Chiba, Tetsuhiro
Ooka, Yoshihiko
Suzuki, Eiichiro
Maeda, Takahiro
Yokoyama, Masayuki
Wakamatsu, Toru
Inoue, Masanori
Saito, Tomoko
Kobayashi, Kazufumi
Kiyono, Soichiro
Nakamura, Masato
Nakamoto, Shingo
Yasui, Shin
Tawada, Akinobu
Arai, Makoto
Kanda, Tatsuo
Maruyama, Hitoshi
Yokosuka, Osamu
Kato, Naoya
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (25460977)
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (16768629)
Article History
Received: 26 June 2017
Accepted: 29 August 2017
First Online: 11 September 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Osamu Yokosuka received grant support and honoraria from Bayer. Sadahisa Ogasawara received advisory fee and honoraria from Bayer. The other authors who took part in this study indicated that they did not have anything to declare regarding funding or conflict of interest with respect to this study.
: 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.
: For this type of study, formal consent was not required.