Toriyama, Minoru
Nakamae, Atsuo
Abe, Takumi
Hirata, Kazuhiko
Adachi, Nobuo
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP17K18207)
Article History
Received: 8 August 2023
Accepted: 2 April 2024
First Online: 17 April 2024
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: MT: acquisition and analysis of data, statistical analysis, drafting the article. AN: conception and design, analysis and interpretation of data, drafting the article. TA: acquisition of data. KH: interpretation of data. NA: final approval of the manuscript.
: All methods were carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. This study was approved by the Ethical Review Committee for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects in accordance with the Declaration of Hiroshima University (ID number: C-274-1). Written informed consent to be involved in the experimental procedures was obtained from all the participants before the start of this study.
: NA.