Tadano, Hiroki
Tsukahara, Tomohide
Mizushima, Emi
Akamatsu, Asuka
Watanabe, Kazue
Nojima, Iyori
Kubo, Terufumi
Kanaseki, Takayuki
Hirohashi, Yoshihiko
Sato, Noriyuki
Torigoe, Toshihiko
Article History
Received: 2 December 2019
Revised: 29 June 2020
Accepted: 14 July 2020
First Online: 5 August 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All studies were approved by the Institutional Review Board of Sapporo Medical University. Written informed consent was obtained from all blood donors according to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: The datasets used and analysed during this study are available from the corresponding author.
: T. Torigoe received financial support through collaboration with Daiichi-Sankyo Co., Ltd. and Oho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. The remaining authors declare no commercial or financial competing interests.
: This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grants-in-Aid (25462344 to T. Tsukahara, 17H01540 to T. Torigoe), and grants from AMED (19cm0106309h004 to T. Torigoe), the Takeda Science Foundation (2018-Kenkyu-Shorei Keizoku to T. Tsukahara) and the Suhara Memorial Foundation (H30 to T. Tsukahara).