Takeda, Akihiro http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5368-7692
Doi, Takahiro
Asada, Akiko
Suzuki, Toshinari
Yuzawa, Katsuhiro
Ando, Hiroshi
Kubo, Yoshikazu
Nagasawa, Akemichi
Kaihoko, Fujifumi
Hasegawa, Yuko
Tanaka, Kazuyoshi
Igarashi, Kai
Maeno, Tomokazu
Suzuki, Atsuko
Shimizu, Seiko
Uemura, Nozomi
Nakajima, Jun’ichi
Suzuki, Jin
Tagami, Takaomi
Article History
Received: 7 November 2019
Accepted: 7 April 2020
First Online: 22 April 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All animal experiments performed in this study were reviewed and approved by the Animal Experiment Committee of Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health. The animal experiments were performed in accordance with the code of practice for animal experiment, and the standards of conduct and the standard operation procedure for experimental animal facility of Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health based on the “Act on Welfare and Management of Animals” (Act No. 105 of 1973), “Standards relating to the Care and Keeping and Reducing Pain of Laboratory Animals” (Notice of The Ministry of the Environment No. 88 of 2006), “Fundamental Guidelines for Proper Conduct of Animal Experiments and Related Activities in Research Institutions under the jurisdiction of the ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare” (Notification of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of 1st June, 2006), “Standards relating to Methods of Destruction of Animals” (Notice of the Ministry of the Environment No. 105 of 2007), “Guidelines for Proper Conduct of Animal Experiments” (Science Council of Japan of 1st June, 2006), and “Tokyo Metropolitan Act for Welfare and Management of Animals” (Act No. 81 of 1979).