Hosoya, Satoshi
Yokomizo, Ryo
Kishigami, Harue
Fujiki, Yukiko
Kaneko, Erika
Amita, Mitsuyoshi
Saito, Takakazu
Kishi, Hiroshi
Sago, Haruhiko
Okamoto, Aikou
Umezawa, Akihiro
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Jikei University Research Fund for Graduate Students
KAKENHI (JP22J23244, JP20J14152)
National Center for Child Health and Development
Ferring Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
TERUMO LIFE SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Article History
Received: 27 November 2022
Accepted: 27 September 2023
First Online: 15 October 2023
Declarations
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: The protocol for the use of menstrual blood-derived cells in the present study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of National Center for Child Health and Development of Japan (approval number: 2021-025 for infertile patients [May 27th, 2021] and 89 for volunteers [November 8th, 2010]). Written informed consents for participation and publication were obtained from all participants. Use of endometrial stromal cells was approved by the Institutional Review Board of National Center for Child Health and Development of Japan (approval number: 2289 [August 27th, 2019]) and the Jikei University School of Medicine (approval number: 28-083(8326), [June, 10th, 2019]). The animal experiments were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of National Center for Child Health and Development (approval number: 2003-002, [April 1st, 2003]). All animal experiments were based on the 3R principle (refine, reduce, and replace), and all efforts were made to minimize animal suffering and to reduce the number of animals used.
: Written informed consents for participation and publication were obtained from all participants.
: AU is a co-researcher with MTI Ltd., Terumo Corp., BONAC Corp., Kaneka Corp., CellSeed Inc., ROHTO Pharmaceutical Ltd., SEKISUI MEDICAL Ltd., Metcela Inc., PhoenixBio Ltd., Dai Nippon Printing Ltd. AU is a stockholder of TMU Science Ltd., Morikuni Ltd., and Japan Tissue Engineering Ltd. AU is the associate editor of this journal but was not involved in the peer review or decision making of this manuscript. The other authors declare that there is no conflict of interest regarding the work described herein.