Tanaka, Nobuho
Tashiro, Toshiyuki
Katsuragawa, Yozo
Sawabe, Motoji
Furukawa, Hiroshi
Fukui, Naoshi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of the Science (15K20022)
Japan Society for the Promotion of the Science (23390371)
Article History
Received: 21 December 2018
Accepted: 29 April 2019
First Online: 18 May 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Committee of the National Hospital Organization Sagamihara Hospital (reference #2007102310). Informed consent was obtained in writing from each OA patient for providing cartilage tissue for research. Informed consent was also obtained in writing from the family of the donor prior to the acquisition of control cartilage.
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