Kawasugi, Kazuo
Wada, Hideo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9021-8633
Honda, Goichi
Kawano, Noriaki
Uchiyama, Toshimasa
Madoiwa, Seiji
Takezako, Naoki
Suzuki, Kei
Seki, Yoshinobu
Ikezoe, Takayuki
Iba, Toshiaki
Okamoto, Kohji
Funding for this research was provided by:
Asahi Group Foundation
Article History
Received: 1 October 2020
Accepted: 16 February 2021
First Online: 25 February 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Approval for this study was obtained from the appropriate ethics committees and institutional review boards of Mie Prefectural General Medical Center.
: Not applicable.
: Asahi Kasei Pharma Corporation absorbed expenses for the analysis and the English language editing of manuscript. N.K. received no grants or personal fees. H.W. received grants and personal fees from Asahi Kasei Pharma Corporation and Japan Blood Products Organization outside the present work. T.U., S.M., N.T., K.S., Y.S., and K.O. received personal fees from Asahi Kasei Pharma Corporation outside the present work. K.K. and T.I<sup>j</sup>. received grants and personal fees from Asahi Kasei Pharma Corporation outside the present work. G.H. is an employee of Asahi Kasei Pharma Corporation. T.I<sup>k</sup>. received research grants from Japan Blood Products Organization and Japan Immunoresearch Laboratories outside the present work.