Oikawa, Shino
Kai, Yuko
Mano, Asuka
Ohata, Hisayuki
Kurabayashi, Atsushi
Tsuda, Masayuki
Kakinuma, Yoshihiko http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5470-9128
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (16K08560)
the Smoking Research Foundation (2019-22)
Vehicle Racing Commemorative Foundation (2020)
Article History
Received: 6 July 2020
Accepted: 7 December 2020
First Online: 18 January 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The experimental protocols in this study were approved by the Animal Care and Research Ethics Committee of Nippon Medical School in Tokyo, Japan (Permission Number: 27-003). All animal experiments were performed in strict accordance with the recommendations set by the Directive 2010/63/EU of the European Parliament and the National Institutes of Health guide for the care and use of laboratory animals. Animal stress and suffering were minimized as much as possible.
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