Mikami, Mikio
Tanabe, Kazuhiro https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2671-1217
Nagaki, Saki
Nogami, Yuya
Imanishi, Tadashi
Ikeda, Masae
Yoshida, Hiroshi
Hasegawa, Masanori
Shimada, Muneaki
Shigeta, Shogo
Ishikawa, Mitsuya
Kato, Mayumi
Saji, Haruya
Kobayashi, Yoichi
Morisada, Tohru
Suzuki, Nao
Ohhara, Tatsuru
Tanaka, Kyoko
Murakami, Isao
Katahira, Tomoko
Hayashi, Chihiro
Grubbs, Brendan H.
Yamagami, Wataru
Matsuo, Koji
Funding for this research was provided by:
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (20H03828)
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (21K09457)
AMED (JP24ama221416h0003)
Grants from the Minoru Sano Memorial Fund (23I326218)
Article History
Received: 3 May 2026
Accepted: 22 June 2026
First Online: 1 July 2026
Declarations
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: All participants provided written informed consent, and the study was approved by the institutional review board (IRB) of Tokai University (IRB registration number: 09R-082; September 17, 2009 and 15R-237; June 17, 2019). All research methods and procedures strictly followed the ethical principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki and fully complied with applicable institutional, national, and international guidelines.
: Not applicable.
: MM and LSI Medience Corporation applied for a patent related to this study in Japan (2019-108992). The remaining authors declare no competing interests.