Tsuchiya, Atsunori https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9279-5917
Watanabe, Yusuke
Kimura, Naruhiro
Abe, Hiroyuki
Setsu, Toru
Yokoo, Takeshi
Kamimura, Hiroteru
Sakamaki, Akira
Saito, Hiroaki
Tominaga, Masaki
Sato, Tatsuhiko
Kitamura, Nobutaka
Tanaka, Takahiro
Kanemitsu, Yoshitomi
Ishizawa, Masahiro
Miyazawa, Haruna
Tanaka, Mototsugu
Ishikawa, Hiroyuki
Harada, Kenichi
Tomita, Yoshihiko
Tamai, Katsuto
Terai, Shuji https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5439-635X
Article History
Received: 7 October 2025
Accepted: 17 April 2026
First Online: 9 May 2026
Declarations
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: This trial was approved by Niigata University Medical and Dental Hospital’s Institutional Review Board (IRB reference number: I020-003) and registered with the Japan Registry of Clinical Trials (registry number: jRCT2031200232). Written informed consent was obtained from all participants.
: All authors have read and approved the final manuscript and consent to its publication.
: AT and ST received funding from Shionogi & Co., Ltd. ST received funding from StemRim Inc. ST is the Editor for the journal. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.