Hashimoto, Yuko
Matsudaira, Ko
Sawada, Susumu S.
Gando, Yuko
Kawakami, Ryoko
Sloan, Robert A.
Kinugawa, Chihiro
Okamoto, Takashi
Tsukamoto, Koji
Miyachi, Motohiko
Naito, Hisashi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Graduate School of Juntendo University (1412404)
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (15K01677)
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (29061001)
Article History
Received: 6 October 2017
Accepted: 2 March 2018
First Online: 9 March 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: In our study, the participants gave written informed consent before beginning of the study. This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition (290–01).
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