Kikuchi, Masafumi
Tanaka, Masaki
Takasaki, Shinya
Takahashi, Akiko
Akiba, Miki
Matsuda, Yasushi
Noda, Masafumi
Hisamichi, Kanehiko
Yamaguchi, Hiroaki
Okada, Yoshinori
Mano, Nariyasu
Article History
Received: 11 December 2017
Accepted: 5 March 2018
First Online: 2 April 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures were approved by the Ethics Committee of Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, and all plasma samples were collected from patients at Tohoku University Hospital after receiving informed consent.
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