Kotajima-Murakami, Hiroko
Kobayashi, Toshiyuki
Kashii, Hirofumi
Sato, Atsushi
Hagino, Yoko
Tanaka, Miho
Nishito, Yasumasa
Takamatsu, Yukio
Uchino, Shigeo
Ikeda, Kazutaka
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (26860836)
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (16K15565, 16H06276, 15H01303)
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (JP16ek0109015)
Article History
Received: 30 September 2018
Accepted: 25 December 2018
First Online: 8 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All of the animal experiments were performed in accordance with the Guidelines for the Care of Laboratory Animals of the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, and the housing conditions were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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