Motoi, Midori
Shin, Nakyeong
Hama, Momo
Yasuda, Yukitaro
Nishimura, Takayuki
Nishimura, Eigo
Toyoshima, Hideo
Araki, Yuiko
Katsumura, Takafumi
Xia, Yali
Ohashi, Tomoaki
Kuriyama, Nariaki
Miyauchi, Yuna
Motomura, Yuki
Higuchi, Shigekazu
Funding for this research was provided by:
Tokuo Fujii Research Fund Kyushu University.
Honda R&D Co., Ltd
Article History
Received: 31 January 2026
Accepted: 2 June 2026
First Online: 10 June 2026
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Kyushu University Hospital Institutional Review Board (approval no. 24013). After the experimental procedures were explained, written informed consent was obtained from all participants before enrollment. The study was registered in the UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN000055964).
: Not applicable.
: TN, YX, TO, and YNM are employees of Honda R&D Co., Ltd., and NK is an employee of Honda Research Institute Japan Co., Ltd. No other competing interests are declared. Honda R&D Co., Ltd. funded this study. The sponsor reviewed and approved the study protocol but had no access to the raw data and did not influence the statistical analyses or the decision to submit this manuscript for publication.