Shoji, Satoshi
Hosojima, Michihiro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2750-735X
Kabasawa, Hideyuki
Kondo, Rie
Miura, Satoru
Watanabe, Satoshi
Aoki, Nobumasa
Kaseda, Ryohei
Kuwahara, Shoji
Tanabe, Naohito
Hirayama, Yoshiaki
Narita, Ichiei
Kikuchi, Toshiaki
Kagamu, Hiroshi
Saito, Akihiko
Funding for this research was provided by:
Grants-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan for Scientific Research (26293196, 26461216)
Grants-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan for Young Scientists (25870245)
Grants-in-Aid for the Practical Research Project for Renal Diseases from the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (18ek0310007h0003)
Article History
Received: 12 September 2019
Accepted: 22 November 2019
First Online: 2 December 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee of Niigata University (approval number: 2015–1789). The study population included 45 patients who had given written informed consent.
: Not applicable.
: AS received a research grant from Denka Seiken Co., Ltd. The other authors declare they have no competing interests.