Ichikawa, Takashi
Okugawa, Yoshinaga http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0417-5559
Toiyama, Yuji
Tanaka, Koji
Yin, Chengzeng
Kitajima, Takahito
Kondo, Satoru
Shimura, Tadanobu
Ohi, Masaki
Araki, Toshimitsu
Kusunoki, Masato
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (18K08700, 18K08674, 18K08566)
Article History
Received: 30 April 2019
Revised: 9 October 2019
Accepted: 29 October 2019
First Online: 22 November 2019
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all patients in accordance with guidelines approved by the Institutional Review Board of Mie University Hospital. The treatment protocol followed the guidelines for animal experimentation adopted by Mie University, and meets the standards required by the UKCCCR guidelines.<sup>19</sup> This study is performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: The work was partially supported by a Grant in Aid for Scientific Research (18K08700, 18K08674, 18K08566) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan.
: Primary research data are presented in a summative fashion in the manuscript. No publicly available datasets have been generated as part of this work.