About the Authors
- Elsayed Mohamed Deraz
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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
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Contributed equally to this work with: Elsayed Mohamed Deraz, Yasusei Kudo
* E-mail: 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
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Affiliation Division of Frontier Medical Science, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathobiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
- Mariko Obayashi
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Affiliation Division of Frontier Medical Science, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathobiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
- Takaaki Tsunematsu
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Affiliation Division of Frontier Medical Science, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathobiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
- Hirotaka Tani
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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
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Affiliation Division of Frontier Medical Science, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathobiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
- Mohammad Reza Kiekhaee
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Affiliation Division of Frontier Medical Science, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathobiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
- Guangying Qi
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Affiliation Division of Frontier Medical Science, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathobiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
- Shinji Iizuka
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Affiliation Division of Frontier Medical Science, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathobiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
- Ikuko Ogawa
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Affiliation Center of Oral Clinical Examination, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan
- Giuseppina Campisi
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Affiliation Department of Stomatological Sciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
- Lorenzo Lo Muzio
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Affiliation Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
- Yoshimitsu Abiko
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, School of Dentistry at Matsudo, Nihon University, Chiyoda, Japan
- Akira Kikuchi
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
- Takashi Takata
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* E-mail: 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.