Kamil, Muhammad
Shinsato, Yoshinari
Higa, Nayuta
Hirano, Takuro
Idogawa, Masashi
Takajo, Tomoko
Minami, Kentaro
Shimokawa, Michiko
Yamamoto, Masatatsu
Kawahara, Kohichi
Yonezawa, Hajime
Hirano, Hirofumi
Furukawa, Tatsuhiko http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1655-4123
Yoshimoto, Koji
Arita, Kazunori
Funding for this research was provided by:
MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP17K10871, JP26870456, JP18K16590, JP16K09285, JP18K15248, JP18K07239, JP26670160, JP23592132, JP17k07221, JP15k10338, JP16K07121, JP22501047, 17K10868, JP15K10311)
Article History
Received: 6 July 2018
Revised: 1 February 2019
Accepted: 12 February 2019
First Online: 14 March 2019
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The datasets generated and analysed during the current study are not publicly available but available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Kagoshima University and was carried out in accordance with the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki. Informed consent was obtained from each patient prior to their inclusion in the study.