Nakayama, Koyo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6253-8207
Saito, Atsushi
Biggs, Elijah
Linguraru, Marius George
Shimizu, Akinobu
Article History
Received: 15 August 2018
Accepted: 28 February 2019
First Online: 14 March 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All the procedures of the study with human participants were performed in compliance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1975 Helsinki Declaration, as revised in 2008(5). The study was approved by the Ethics Committee at Children’s National Medical Center (Approval No. 00003792) and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (Approval No. 30-31).
: Informed consent was obtained from all the participants included in the study.