About the Authors

Jorge Luis Montenegro Raudales

Affiliation Department of Periodontology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Atsutoshi Yoshimura

ayoshi@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Periodontology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Ziauddin SM

Affiliation Department of Periodontology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Takashi Kaneko

Affiliation Center for Oral Diseases, Fukuoka Dental College, Fukuoka, Japan

Yukio Ozaki

Affiliation Department of Periodontology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Takashi Ukai

Affiliation Department of Periodontology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Toshihiro Miyazaki

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Eicke Latz

Affiliations University Hospital, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Bonn, Germany, Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Yoshitaka Hara

Affiliation Department of Periodontology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AY. Formal analysis: JLMR TM. Funding acquisition: AY YH. Investigation: JLMR TM. Methodology: JLMR AY. Project administration: AY. Resources: ZSM TK YO TU EL. Supervision: AY YH. Validation: JLMR. Visualization: JLMR TM. Writing – original draft: JLMR TM. Writing – review & editing: AY EL YH.