Ito, Sadayoshi
Satoh, Minoru
Tamaki, Yuko
Gotou, Hiromi
Charney, Alan
Okino, Naoko
Akahori, Mizuki
Zhang, Jack
Article History
Received: 25 June 2014
Revised: 16 December 2014
Accepted: 23 December 2014
First Online: 19 February 2015
Competing interests
: YT, HG, AC, NO, MA and JZ are employees of Novartis Pharmaceutical Corporation and may receive ⩾1 000 000 yen (in one year) for employment. SI received lecture fee and consultant fee from various Japanese pharmaceutical companies, including Novartis. MS has no conflict of interest to disclose.