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- February 18, 2019.
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- Takahiro Kitsuka1,
- Manabu Itoh1,*,
- Sojiro Amamoto1,
- Ken-ichi Arai2,
- Junichi Oyama3,
- Koichi Node3,
- Shuji Toda4,
- Shigeki Morita5,
- Takahiro Nishida1 and
- Koichi Nakayama2
- 1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan
- 2Department of Regenerative Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan
- 3Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan
- 4Department of Pathology & Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan
- 5Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyushu Medical Center, A Hospital of National Hospital Organization, Fukuoka, Japan
- ↵*Corresponding author: Manabu Itoh, MD, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Saga University, Nabeshima 5-1-1, Saga 849-8501, Japan, Telephone: +81-952-34-2345, Fax: +81-952-34-2061, E-mail: itomana{at}cc.saga-u.ac.jp