About the Authors

Yoko Hasegawa

ono@dent.osaka-u.ac.jp (TO); cem17150@hyo-med.ac.jp (YH)

Affiliations Department of Dentistry and Oral Surgery, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan, Division of Oromaxillofacial Regeneration, Course of Integrated Oral Science, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Suita, Japan

Yoshihisa Tachibana

Affiliation Division of System Neurophysiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan

Joe Sakagami

Affiliation Division of Oromaxillofacial Regeneration, Course of Integrated Oral Science, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Suita, Japan

Min Zhang

Affiliation Department of General Dentistry and Emergency, School of Stomatology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Masahiro Urade

Affiliation Department of Dentistry and Oral Surgery, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan

Takahiro Ono

ono@dent.osaka-u.ac.jp (TO); cem17150@hyo-med.ac.jp (YH)

Affiliation Division of Oromaxillofacial Regeneration, Course of Integrated Oral Science, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Suita, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YH YT JS MZ. Performed the experiments: YH JS MZ. Analyzed the data: YH YT JS MZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YH YT JS. Wrote the paper: YH YT. Revised the manuscript: TO. Directed and supervised the study: MU TO.