About the Authors

Yuu Horikiri

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Tsuyoshi Shimo

shimotsu@md.okayama-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Naito Kurio

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Tatsuo Okui

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Kenichi Matsumoto

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Masahiro Iwamoto

Affiliation Division of Orthopedic Surgery, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Akira Sasaki

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TS. Performed the experiments: YH TS NK TO KM. Analyzed the data: YH TS NK TO KM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YH TS NK TO. Wrote the manuscript: TS MI AS. Cell culture: YH. Fracture model analysis: YH TS. RNA and protein analysis: YH NK TO. Research design: TS MI AS.