Yokota, Kazuya
Kubota, Kensuke
Kobayakawa, Kazu
Saito, Takeyuki
Hara, Masamitsu
Kijima, Ken
Maeda, Takeshi
Katoh, Hiroyuki
Ohkawa, Yasuyuki
Nakashima, Yasuharu
Okada, Seiji
Funding for this research was provided by:
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP16H05450 and JP16K15668)
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Overseas Research Fellowships
Grant from the General Insurance Association of Japan
Article History
Received: 6 November 2018
Accepted: 11 December 2018
First Online: 9 January 2019
Ethics approval
: All surgical procedures and experimental manipulations were approved by the Committee of Ethics on Animal Experiment in Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University. Experiments were conducted in accordance with the institutional guidelines and regulations for animal experiments.
: Not applicable.
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