Tanaka, Nobuho
Tsuno, Hirotaka
Ohashi, Satoru
Iwasawa, Mitsuyasu
Furukawa, Hiroshi
Kato, Tomohiro
Fukui, Naoshi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8027-038X
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Japan Society for the Promotion of the Science (18K16638)
The Japan Society for the Promotion of the Science (18K16638)
The Japan Society for the Promotion of the Science (20K09447)
Article History
Received: 8 August 2020
Accepted: 17 February 2021
First Online: 27 February 2021
Consent for publication
: Not applicable.
: 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 families of donors prior to the acquisition of control cartilage.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.