Konno, Masamitsu http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6960-2315
Koseki, Jun
Asai, Ayumu
Yamagata, Akira
Shimamura, Teppei
Motooka, Daisuke
Okuzaki, Daisuke http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4552-783X
Kawamoto, Koichi
Mizushima, Tsunekazu
Eguchi, Hidetoshi
Takiguchi, Shuji
Satoh, Taroh
Mimori, Koshi
Ochiya, Takahiro
Doki, Yuichiro
Ofusa, Ken
Mori, Masaki
Ishii, Hideshi
Funding for this research was provided by:
MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (15H05791, 17H04282)
Article History
Received: 27 September 2016
Accepted: 6 August 2019
First Online: 29 August 2019
Conflict of interest
: M.K. and T.S. have the following financial interests: Chugai Co., Ltd.; Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd.; Ono Pharmaceutic Co., Ltd. (Osaka, Japan); and Merck Co., Ltd (Tokyo, Japan). H.I. and J.K. have the following financial interests: partial institutional endowments were received from Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.; Kinshu-kai Medical Corporation (Osaka, Japan); Unitech Co. Ltd. (Chiba, Japan); IDEA Consultants Inc. (Tokyo, Japan). A.Y., and K.O. are employed in IDEA Consultants Inc. (Tokyo, Japan). All the remaining authors declare no competing interests.