Sakakura, Yousuke
Kamei, Masataka
Sakamoto, Ryota
Morii, Hideyuki
Itoh-Masui, Asami
Kawamoto, Eiji
Imai, Hiroshi
Miyabe, Masayuki
Shimaoka, Motomu
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (16K10957)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (17K11049, 15K16257, 16K20387, 18K08917, 18K08916, 18H02622, 16K15759)
Article History
Received: 30 May 2018
Accepted: 26 November 2018
First Online: 4 December 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The protocol for this study was approved by the Internal Review Board (IRB) of Mie University Graduate School of Medicine (Tsu-city, Mie, Japan: #3028). Written informed consent to participate in this study was obtained from all subjects.
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: The authors (YS, MK, RS, HM, AI-M, EK, HI, MM, and MS) declare no conflicts of interest associated with this work.
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