Yoshikawa, Ayumu
Terashita, Katsumi
Morikawa, Kenichi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3891-5113
Matsuda, Soichiro
Yamamura, Takahiro
Sarashina, Koichiro
Nakano, Shintaro
Kobayashi, Yoshimitsu
Sogabe, Susumu
Takahashi, Kazuhiro
Haba, Shin
Oda, Hisashi
Takahashi, Tatsuro
Miyagishima, Takuto
Sakamoto, Naoya
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (16FK0210109H1401, 16FK0310503H1405)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP26461021)
Article History
Received: 17 February 2017
Accepted: 18 April 2017
First Online: 26 April 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Professor Naoya Sakamoto received lecture fees from Bristol Myers Squibb and Pharmaceutical K.K; grants and endowments from MSD K.K. and Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.; and a research grant from Gilead Sciences, Inc. Dr. Kenichi Morikawa received research grants from Gilead Sciences, Inc. Ayumu Yoshikawa, Katsumi Terashita, Soichiro Matsuda, Takahiro Yamamura, Koichiro Sarashina, Shintaro Nakano, Yoshimitsu Kobayashi, Susumu Sogabe, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Shin Haba, Hisashi Oda, Tatsuro Takahashi, and Takuto Miyagishima declare that they have no conflicts of interest related to this manuscript.
: All procedures were in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments.
: Informed consent for inclusion in this report was obtained from the patient.