Kita, Yuki
Hamada, Akihiro
Saito, Ryoichi
Teramoto, Yuki
Tanaka, Ryusuke
Takano, Keishi
Nakayama, Kenji
Murakami, Kaoru
Matsumoto, Keiyu
Akamatsu, Shusuke
Yamasaki, Toshinari
Inoue, Takahiro
Tabata, Yasuhiko
Okuno, Yasushi
Ogawa, Osamu
Kobayashi, Takashi
Funding for this research was provided by:
MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (#16J03059, 25713055)
Article History
Received: 2 May 2019
Revised: 24 September 2019
Accepted: 2 October 2019
First Online: 1 November 2019
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The presented research was conducted with the ethical standards that promote and ensure respect and integrity for all human subjects who participated, and justified by the potential benefit to the patient, all in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The collection and use of material for molecular studies was approved by the Institutional Review Board at Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine (#G0052-17). All patients were informed prior to surgery and gave consent for using their tumour samples during and after the study. All animal experiments were conducted in accordance with the guidelines of the Laboratory Protocol of Animal Care and Use Committee, Kyoto University.
: This study was partly supported by JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A) from Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (to T.K. #25713055) and Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow (to Y.K. #16J03059).
: All authors have read the paper and given consent for publication.
: All data and material are available upon request.