Hamatani, Sayo
Tsuchiyagaito, Aki
Nihei, Masato
Hayashi, Yuta
Yoshida, Tokiko
Takahashi, Jumpei
Okawa, Sho
Arai, Honami
Nagaoka, Maki
Matsumoto, Kazuki
Shimizu, Eiji
Hirano, Yoshiyuki https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3844-3061
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (JP20dm0307002)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (16K04344, 16K04342, 19K03309, 19J00227)
Article History
Received: 29 March 2020
Accepted: 27 August 2020
First Online: 4 September 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Written informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to the assessments, and ethical approval for the present study was granted by the ethics committee of Chiba University (study number 2120). The present study was registered (clinical trial number UMIN000024087) with the University Hospital Medical Information Network Center. The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.