Takahashi, Akira
Takahashi, Shotaro
Tsujino, Tetsuhiro
Isobe, Kazushige
Watanabe, Taisuke
Kitamura, Yutaka
Watanabe, Takao
Nakata, Koh
Kawase, Tomoyuki https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4160-396X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (18K09595)
Article History
Received: 20 September 2018
Accepted: 14 January 2019
First Online: 25 February 2019
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: The study design and consent forms of all the procedures performed were approved by the ethics committee for human participants of the Niigata University School of Medicine (Niigata, Japan) in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 as revised in 2013. Written informed consents to participate in the study were obtained from all the participants.
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: Akira Takahashi, Shotaro Takahashi, Tetsuhiro Tsujino, Kazushige Isobe, Taisuke Watanabe, Yutaka Kitamura, Takao Watanabe, Koh Nakata, and Tomoyuki Kawase declare that they have no competing interests.
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