Leukemia inhibitory factor produced by fibroblasts within tumor stroma participates in invasion of oral squamous cell carcinoma

• Yae Ohata,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Oral Pathology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Maiko Tsuchiya,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Oral Pathology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hideaki Hirai,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Satoshi Yamaguchi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Takumi Akashi,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Surgical Pathology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kei Sakamoto,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral Pathology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Akira Yamaguchi,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral Health Science Center, Tokyo Dental College, Tokyo, Japan

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• Tohru Ikeda,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral Pathology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kou Kayamori

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kayamori.mpa@tmd.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Oral Pathology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9648-5828

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