Yamashita, Kohei
Iwatsuki, Masaaki
Harada, Kazuto
Koga, Yuki
Kiyozumi, Yuki
Eto, Kojiro
Hiyoshi, Yukiharu
Ishimoto, Takatsugu
Iwagami, Shiro
Baba, Yoshifumi
Miyamoto, Yuji
Yoshida, Naoya
Komohara, Yoshihiro
Ajani, Jaffer A.
Baba, Hideo
Funding for this research was provided by:
MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (16K10463, 16KK0184)
Article History
Received: 10 March 2019
Revised: 7 June 2019
Accepted: 20 June 2019
First Online: 9 July 2019
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Ethical approval for this study was granted by the ethical committee at Kumamoto University Hospital (Approval number: 1037). The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki principles.
: This work was supported in part by the following grant and foundation: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research; grant number 16K10463 and 16KK0184.
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