Iwamoto, Naoki https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2197-0757
Fukui, Shoichi
Takatani, Ayuko
Shimizu, Toshimasa
Umeda, Masataka
Nishino, Ayako
Igawa, Takashi
Koga, Tomohiro
Kawashiri, Shin-ya
Ichinose, Kunihiro
Tmai, Mami
Nakamura, Hideki
Origuchi, Tomoki
Chiba, Ko
Osaki, Makoto
Jüngel, Astrid
Gay, Steffen
Kawakami, Atsushi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (16K19605)
Article History
Received: 30 November 2017
Accepted: 16 August 2018
First Online: 29 August 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Investigation and Ethics Committee at Nagasaki University. Patients gave their informed consent to be subjected to the protocol.
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