About the Authors

Elsayed Mohamed Deraz

Contributed equally to this work with: Elsayed Mohamed Deraz, Yasusei Kudo

Affiliation Division of Frontier Medical Science, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathobiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Yasusei Kudo

Contributed equally to this work with: Elsayed Mohamed Deraz, Yasusei Kudo

ykudo@hiroshima-u.ac.jp (YK); ttakata@hiroshima-u.ac.jp (TT)

Affiliation Division of Frontier Medical Science, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathobiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Maki Yoshida

Affiliation Division of Frontier Medical Science, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathobiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Mariko Obayashi

Affiliation Division of Frontier Medical Science, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathobiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Takaaki Tsunematsu

Affiliation Division of Frontier Medical Science, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathobiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Hirotaka Tani

Affiliation Division of Frontier Medical Science, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathobiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Samadarani B. S. M. Siriwardena

Affiliation Division of Frontier Medical Science, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathobiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Mohammad Reza Kiekhaee

Affiliation Division of Frontier Medical Science, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathobiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Guangying Qi

Affiliation Division of Frontier Medical Science, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathobiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Shinji Iizuka

Affiliation Division of Frontier Medical Science, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathobiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Ikuko Ogawa

Affiliation Center of Oral Clinical Examination, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan

Giuseppina Campisi

Affiliation Department of Stomatological Sciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Lorenzo Lo Muzio

Affiliation Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy

Yoshimitsu Abiko

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, School of Dentistry at Matsudo, Nihon University, Chiyoda, Japan

Akira Kikuchi

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan

Takashi Takata

ykudo@hiroshima-u.ac.jp (YK); ttakata@hiroshima-u.ac.jp (TT)

Affiliation Division of Frontier Medical Science, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathobiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YK TT. Performed the experiments: EMD MY MO HT TT SBSMS MRK GQ SI. Analyzed the data: IO YA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GC LLM AK. Wrote the paper: EMD YK.