Nakano, Atushi
Kawashima, Hidekazu
Miyake, Yoshinori
Zeniya, Tsutomu
Yamamoto, Akihide
Koshino, Kazuhiro
Temma, Takashi
Fukuda, Tetsuya
Fujita, Yoshiko
Kakino, Akemi
Kanaya, Shigehiko
Sawamura, Tatsuya
Iida, Hidehiro http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4622-6403
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (Grant for Translational Research)
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development
Article History
Received: 24 April 2017
Revised: 13 September 2017
Accepted: 13 September 2017
First Online: 2 October 2017
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Atushi Nakano, Hidekazu Kawashima, Yoshinori Miyake, Tsutomu Zeniya, Kazuhiro Koshino, Takashi Temma, Tetsuya Fukuda, Yoshiko Fujita, Akemi Kakino, Shigehiko Kanaya, and Tatsuya Sawamura declare that they have no conflict of interest. Hidehiro Iida received research grants from Chugai Yakuhin, Japan, Nihon Medi Physics, Japan and Molecular Imaging Labo, Japan. Akihide Yamamoto is paid by Molecular Imaging lab, Japan. This study was supported by the Budget for Nuclear Research of MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Japan), a Grant for Translational Research from MHLW (Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Japan), a Grant for Strategic Japanese-Finnish Research Cooperative Program on “Application of Medical ICT Devices” from Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED), Japan, and JSPS KAKENHI Grants (Number: 24,601,021 and 15 K01309).
: The animal experiments in this study were conducted in accordance with guidelines for animal research on Human Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (Rockville, National Institute of Health/Office for Protection from Research Risks, 1996). The study protocol was approved by the Sub-committee for Laboratory Animal Welfare, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Osaka, Japan.
: The present study included only animal data, thus our institute approved that the requirement to obtain informed consent was waived.