Okuda, Michiaki
Fujita, Yuki
Katsube, Takuya
Tabata, Hiromasa
Yoshino, Katsumi
Hashimoto, Michio
Sugimoto, Hachiro
Funding for this research was provided by:
Shimane federation of societies of commerce and industry, Japan
Article History
Received: 31 May 2017
Accepted: 14 March 2018
First Online: 27 March 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The in vivo study was conducted at the Kyoto University, our research collaborator. The study protocol had been submitted and approved by the Kyoto University Animal Experimentation Committee before we started this study (approved number: 2015–13). All experimental procedures involving mice and their care were conducted in accordance with the ethical guidelines of the committee and also the guidelines of the Japanese Pharmacological Society. The submission of manuscript was approved by all the institutes related to this study (Doshisha, Shimane and Kyoto universities and Shimane Institute for Industrial Technology).
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