Nishi, Masaaki
Shimada, Mistuo
Yoshikawa, Kozo
Takasu, Chie
Wada, Yuma
Tokunaga, Takuya
Nakao, Toshihiro
Kashihara, Hideya
Yoshimoto, Toshiaki
Yamashita, Shoko
Article History
Received: 16 August 2021
Accepted: 19 November 2021
First Online: 10 January 2022
Disclosures
: Masaaki Nishi, Mistuo Shimada, Kozo Yoshikawa, Takuya Tokunaga, Toshihiro Nakao, Chie Takasu, Hideya Kashihara, Yuma Wada, Toshiaki Yoshimoto, and Shoko Yamashita declare no conflicts of interest for this article.
: The protocol for this research project was approved by the Ethics Committee of Tokushima University (approval no. 3215-1). All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions. All informed consent was obtained from the subject(s) and/or guardian(s).