About the Authors
- Suteera Techatanawat
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Current address: Department of General Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Srinakharinwirot University, Watthana, Bangkok, Thailand
Affiliation Ph.D. Program in Oral Biology, Faculty of Dentistry, Mahidol University, Ratchathewi, Bangkok, Thailand
- Rudee Surarit
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, Faculty of Dentistry, Mahidol University, Ratchathewi, Bangkok, Thailand
- Kongthawat Chairatvit
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Roles Supervision
Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, Faculty of Dentistry, Mahidol University, Ratchathewi, Bangkok, Thailand
- Weerapan Khovidhunkit
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Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Pathumwan, Bangkok, Thailand
- Sittiruk Roytrakul
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Roles Supervision
Affiliation National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, National Science and Technology Development Agency, Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani, Thailand
- Supanee Thanakun
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations College of Dental Medicine, Rangsit University, Muang Pathum Thani, Pathum Thani, Thailand, Oral Diagnosis and Oral Medicine Clinic, Dental Hospital, Faculty of Dentistry, Mahidol University, Ratchathewi, Bangkok, Thailand
- Hiroaki Kobayashi
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Roles Resources, Supervision
Affiliation Department of Periodontology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Siribang-on Piboonniyom Khovidhunkit
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Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: siribangon.pib@mahidol.edu
Affiliation Department of Advanced General Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Mahidol University, Ratchathewi, Bangkok, Thailand
- Yuichi Izumi
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Roles Resources, Supervision
Affiliations Department of Periodontology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Oral Care Perio Center, Southern Tohoku General Hospital, Southern Tohoku Research Institute for Neuroscience, Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan
Competing Interests
This study was supported primarily by a grant to S. Techatanawat and S.P. Khovidhunkit from the Thailand Research Fund through the Royal Golden Jubilee Ph.D. Program (Grant No. PHD/45/2556), and the funder had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as all data and protocols underlying this study are shared, and the funding organization does not declare any bias towards particular study outcomes.