Kabasawa, Keiko
Hosojima, Michihiro
Ito, Yumi
Kabasawa, Hideyuki
Tanaka, Junta
Iino, Noriaki
Tsugane, Shoichiro
Nakamura, Kazutoshi
Saito, Akihiko
Yamamoto, Suguru
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (17K15850)
Article History
Received: 26 November 2025
Accepted: 9 February 2026
First Online: 5 March 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of Niigata University (approval numbers, 2012-1640 and 2017-0054). The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Participants provided informed consent to take part in the study before participating.