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560manuscript should be specified in this section after Funding section. Please use initials to refer to each authorʼs contribution in this section, for example: “AU analyzed and interpreted the patient data regarding the hematological disease. KT performed the histological examination of the liver, and was a major contributor in writing the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.”Conflicts of interest statementAll manuscripts must include a “Conflicts of Interest statement” in line with the ʻAuthor competing interests and conflicts of interestʼ section above. If no conflicts exist, please state that “The Author(s) declare(s) that there are no conflicts of interest”.ReferencesReferences, including those given in tables and figure legends, should be numbered sequentially in the order they appear in the text and listed in numerical order at the end of the manuscript under the heading “References”. In the text, citations should be indicated as superscript numbers with an end parenthesis character following each cita-tion number. Three or more consecutive citations should be indicated as a range using a hyphen, e.g. “3)-5)”. Journal titles should be abbreviated as shown in Index Medicus and List of Journals Indexed. When there are six or fewer authors, all should be listed; when there are seven or more, include only the first three and add “et al.” Please note the following examples.Example citation list entries:Journal article1) You WC, Blot WJ, Li JY, et al: Precancerous gastric lesions in a population at high risk of stomach cancer. Cancer Res, 1993; 53: 1317- 1321.Book2) Matsumoto A, Arai Y: Hypothalamus. In: Matsu-moto A, Ishii S, eds. Atlas of Endocrine Organs. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1992: 25-38.TablesTables with suitable titles and numbered with Arabic numerals should be placed at the end of the text on separate sheets (one table per page). They should be understandable without referring to the text. Column headings should be kept as brief as possible, with units for numerical information included in parentheses. Footnotes should be labeled a), b), c), etc. and typed on the same page as the table they refer to.FiguresFigures should also be submitted online as sepa-rate files. They should be numbered in order of appearance with Arabic numerals (e. g. Fig. 1, Fig. 2). Author(s) must pay printing costs for color photo-graphs. Electron micrographs should contain a scale. Individual figures may not exceed the size of a Journal page. Graphs or drawings containing typewritten characters are unacceptable. Numbers, letters and symbols must be large enough to be legible after reduction. In principle, figures should be suitable for publication, and jpg digital files preferred. Each figure must have an accompanying legend, which should be understandable without reference to the text. All figure legends are to be double spaced, and should be collected together as text page(s), rather than being attached to their respective figures.Cover letterSummarize briefly the important points of the submitted work including a brief description of the study to be submitted, that it is an original study presenting novel work, that it has not been previ-ously submitted to or accepted by any other journal, that is has been approved by all authors, and explain whether any author has a conflict of interest.Accepted ManuscriptsManuscripts that are accepted for publication are copyedited and typeset by the journalʼs production team before publication. The journal is published 6