Shimizu, Yuji http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3381-9288
Yamanashi, Hirotomo
Noguchi, Yuko
Koyamatsu, Jun
Nagayoshi, Mako
Kiyoura, Kairi
Fukui, Shoichi
Tamai, Mami
Kawashiri, Shin-Ya
Arima, Kazuhiko
Maeda, Takahiro
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (18K06448)
the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (17H03740)
Article History
Received: 3 September 2018
Accepted: 9 April 2019
First Online: 1 May 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institution research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments for comparable ethical standards. The Ethics Committee for Human Use of Nagasaki University obtained ethical approval. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (project registration number 14051404). Written consent forms were available in Japanese to ensure comprehensive understanding of the study objectives, and informed consent was provided by the participants.
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