Melatonin Inhibits Embryonic Salivary Gland Branching Morphogenesis by Regulating Both Epithelial Cell Adhesion and Morphology

• Aya Obana-Koshino ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aya Obana-Koshino, Hitomi Ono

  Affiliation Department of Oral-facial Disorders, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Hitomi Ono ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aya Obana-Koshino, Hitomi Ono

  Affiliation Department of Oral-facial Disorders, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Jiro Miura,

  Affiliation Division for Interdisciplinary Dentistry, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Manabu Sakai,

  Affiliation Clinical Laboratory, Osaka University Dental Hospital, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Hitoshi Uchida,

  Affiliations Department of Oral-facial Disorders, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Laboratory of Oral Chronobiology, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Wataru Nakamura,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Oral Chronobiology, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Kanji Nohara,

  Affiliation Department of Oral-facial Disorders, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Yusuke Maruyama,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan

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• Atsuhiko Hattori,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan

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• Takayoshi Sakai

  * E-mail: sakai@dent.osaka-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Oral-facial Disorders, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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