Ikeda, Keigo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8032-7147
Hayakawa, Kunihiro
Fujishiro, Maki
Kawasaki, Mikiko
Hirai, Takuya
Tsushima, Hiroshi
Miyashita, Tomoko
Suzuki, Satoshi
Morimoto, Shinji
Tamura, Naoto
Takamori, Kenji
Ogawa, Hideoki
Sekigawa, Iwao
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (S1311011)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP15K08107)
Article History
Received: 9 May 2017
Accepted: 13 August 2017
First Online: 22 August 2017
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval for this study involving blood samples from patients was granted by the institutional review board of the Juntendo University Urayasu Hospital (approval number: 2009–009). Written informed consent was obtained from all the patients according to the Declaration of Helsinki. All experimental protocols involving animals were reviewed and approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Juntendo University (approval number: 1024).
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