Mitsuzawa, Sadaki
Zhao, Chengzhu
Ikeguchi, Ryosuke
Aoyama, Tomoki
Kamiya, Daisuke
Ando, Maki
Takeuchi, Hisataka
Akieda, Shizuka
Nakayama, Koichi
Matsuda, Shuichi
Ikeya, Makoto
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (19lm0203053h0002)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (15K10441, 16H05447)
Article History
Received: 18 February 2020
Accepted: 26 June 2020
First Online: 21 July 2020
Competing interests
: Koichi Nakayama is the co-founder and shareholder of Cyfuse Biomedical K.K., Tokyo, Japan (Cyfuse). Shizuka Akieda, who are the president of Cyfuse, contributed to the manufacturing of 3D conduits and Cyfuse provided the bioprinter to manufacture the conduit. Cyfuse also provided support in the form of a salary for Shizuka Akieda and provided research grants to Ryosuke Ikeguchi, Tomoki Aoyama, Koichi Nakayama and Shuichi Matsuda. Cyfuse did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. These competing interests do not alter the authors’ adherence to Scientific Reports policies on sharing data and materials.