About the Authors
- Naoki Maruo
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Contributed equally to this work with: Naoki Maruo, Yoshihiko Sawa
Affiliation Section of Periodontology, Department of Odontology, Fukuoka Dental College, Fukuoka, Japan
- Ryuji Sakagami
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* E-mail: sakagami@college.fdcnet.ac.jp
Affiliation Section of Periodontology, Department of Odontology, Fukuoka Dental College, Fukuoka, Japan
- Yasunori Yoshinaga
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Section of Periodontology, Department of Odontology, Fukuoka Dental College, Fukuoka, Japan
- Kazuhiko Okamura
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Section of Pathology, Department of Morphological Biology, Fukuoka Dental College, Fukuoka, Japan
- Yoshihiko Sawa
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Contributed equally to this work with: Naoki Maruo, Yoshihiko Sawa
Affiliation Section of Functional Structure, Department of Morphological Biology, Fukuoka Dental College, Fukuoka, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RS. Performed the experiments: NM RS. Analyzed the data: YS KO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YY. Wrote the paper: RS NM YS.