Takei, Satomi
Teramoto, Kanae
Sekiguchi, Yuji
Ihara, Hiroaki
Tohya, Mari
Iwamoto, Shinichi
Tanaka, Koichi
Khasawneh, Abdullah
Horiuchi, Yuki
Misawa, Shigeki
Naito, Toshio
Kirikae, Teruo
Tada, Tatsuya
Tabe, Yoko
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (22K15675, 21K07031)
Article History
Received: 19 January 2024
Accepted: 7 May 2024
First Online: 16 May 2024
Competing interests
: The Department of MALDI-TOF MS at Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine has been endowed partially by Shimadzu Corp. (Kyoto, Japan) to develop and validate new diagnostic technology and to conduct academic research through collaborations. ST, KTe, HI, SM, TN, TK and YT belong to the Department of MALDI-TOF MS. Shimadzu Corp. provided MALDI-8020 and reagents for MALDI-MS analysis free of cost to YT. All other authors declare no conflict of interest. The study was performed by scientifically proper methods without any bias.