Kiuchi, Jun
Komatsu, Shuhei
Imamura, Taisuke
Nishibeppu, Keiji
Shoda, Katsutoshi
Arita, Tomohiro
Kosuga, Toshiyuki
Konishi, Hirotaka
Shiozaki, Atsushi
Okamoto, Kazuma
Fujiwara, Hitoshi
Ichikawa, Daisuke
Otsuji, Eigo
Article History
Received: 16 July 2018
Accepted: 26 December 2018
First Online: 4 January 2019
Ethics approval
: All experimental methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations, such as the Declaration of Helsinki. Written informed consent was obtained from all patients to use their tissue specimens and blood samples. This study was approved by the institutional review boards of Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine (ERB-C-319-1). The animal protocol was approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, and all experiments were conducted strictly in accordance to the National Institute of Health Guide for Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.
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