Toyoda, Toshihisa
Isobe, Kazushige
Tsujino, Tetsuhiro
Koyata, Yasuo
Ohyagi, Fumitaka
Watanabe, Taisuke
Nakamura, Masayuki
Kitamura, Yutaka
Okudera, Hajime
Nakata, Koh
Kawase, Tomoyuki http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4160-396X
Article History
Received: 13 March 2018
Accepted: 11 May 2018
First Online: 1 August 2018
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: The study design and consent forms of all the procedures performed were approved by the ethics committee for human participants of the Niigata University School of Medicine (Niigata, Japan) in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 as revised in 2013. Written informed consents to participate in the study were obtained from all the participants.
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: Toshihisa Toyoda, Kazushige Isobe, Tetsuhiro Tsujino, Yasuo Koyata, Fumitaka Ohyagi, Taisuke Watanabe, Masayuki Nakamura, Yutaka Kitamura, Hajime Okudera, Koh Nakata, and Tomoyuki Kawase declare that they have no competing interests.
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