Kitagawa, Akihiro https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8978-1680
Osawa, Tsuyoshi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9479-6665
Noda, Miwa
Kobayashi, Yuta
Aki, Sho
Nakano, Yusuke
Saito, Tomoko
Shimizu, Dai
Komatsu, Hisateru
Sugaya, Maki
Takahashi, Junichi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0143-3145
Kosai, Keisuke
Takao, Seiichiro
Motomura, Yushi
Sato, Kuniaki https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6014-1911
Hu, Qingjiang
Fujii, Atsushi
Wakiyama, Hiroaki
Tobo, Taro
Uchida, Hiroki
Sugimachi, Keishi
Shibata, Kohei
Utsunomiya, Tohru
Kobayashi, Shogo
Ishii, Hideshi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0632-6517
Hasegawa, Takanori
Masuda, Takaaki
Matsui, Yusuke
Niida, Atsushi
Soga, Tomoyoshi https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9502-2509
Suzuki, Yutaka
Miyano, Satoru
Aburatani, Hiroyuki
Doki, Yuichiro
Eguchi, Hidetoshi
Mori, Masaki
Nakayama, Keiichi I.
Shimamura, Teppei
Shibata, Tatsuhiro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0477-210X
Mimori, Koshi https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3897-9974
Article History
Received: 30 April 2022
Revised: 8 March 2023
Accepted: 22 March 2023
First Online: 19 April 2023
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: We obtained written informed consent from the 12 patients. The study design was approved by the institutional review boards and ethics committees of the following hospitals (Kyushu University Institutional Review Board: Protocol Number P-594-00; Osaka University Hospital Institutional Review Board: Protocol Number P-586; Oita Prefectural Hospital Institutional Review Board: Protocol Number P-26-19; Oitaken Koseiren Tsurumi Hospital Institutional Review Board: Protocol Number P-26-3-1; and Fukuoka City Hospital Institutional Review Board: Protocol Number P-15-E04). The study was conducted according to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Written informed consent was provided by all patients for the use of the tissue samples.