El-mezayen, Hatem
Yamamura, Kensuke
Yusa, Toshihiko
Nakao, Yosuke
Uemura, Norio
Kitamura, Fumimasa
Itoyama, Rumi
Yamao, Takanobu
Higashi, Takaaki
Hayashi, Hiromitsu
Imai, Katsunori
Chikamoto, Akira
Yamashita, Yo-ichi
Baba, Hideo
Article History
Received: 14 July 2020
Accepted: 1 February 2021
First Online: 22 April 2021
Disclosure
: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
: All clinical samples were obtained from patients with approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the hospital, and informed consent or appropriate substitute was taken from all patients before study inclusion. All methods were performed with the ethical standards of the appropriate local and national committees on human experimentation and with the latest version of the Helsinki Declaration of 1964.