Sobue, Yasumori
Kojima, Toshihisa
Kurokouchi, Kazutoshi
Takahashi, Shigeo
Yoshida, Hiroaki
Poole, Robin
Ishiguro, Naoki
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (26462290)
Article History
Received: 8 August 2017
Accepted: 13 November 2017
First Online: 6 December 2017
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Nagoya University School of Medicine (2017-0140). This is retrospective research including the information on synovial fluid obtained from the previous study. Therefore, we disclosed the study information at the site of related facilities instead of using a consent form according to committee procedure.
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: With the exception of RP, who is a consultant to IBEX Pharmaceuticals (manufacturers of the C2C assay kit) in Montreal, QC, Canada, the authors have no competing interests to report.
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