Okano, Kumiko
Uematsu, Yosuke
Nibe, Kazumi
Yamashita, Masao
Suzuki, Satoshi
Uchida, Kazuyuki
Ono, Kenichiro http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1035-9765
Hirao, Hidehiro
Article History
Received: 6 September 2018
Accepted: 28 February 2019
First Online: 29 May 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All procedures performed in studies involving animals were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institution or practice at which the studies were conducted.I already described in manuscript, line 141–150, “The injected mice were housed in a cage with free access to water and a standard purified rodent growth diet (AIN-93G, Oriental Yeast, Tokyo, Japan). When the mass was palpable at the injection site, the tumor volume (length × width × height) was measured every day. At the 57th day after the injection, the mice were euthanized with isoflurane and the tumor was resected for histopathological and immunohistochemical examination. All animal experiments were approved by the Committee of Animal Experiments, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo (approve number P17-017).