Development of the cartilaginous connecting apparatuses in the fetal sphenoid, with a focus on the alar process

• Masahito Yamamoto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Masahito Yamamoto, Hiroaki Abe

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Tokyo Dental College, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hiroaki Abe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Masahito Yamamoto, Hiroaki Abe

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

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Tokyo Dental College, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hidetomo Hirouchi,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Tokyo Dental College, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Masaki Sato,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Tokyo Dental College, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Gen Murakami,

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

  Affiliations Department of Anatomy, Tokyo Dental College, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Division of Internal Medicine, Jikou-kai Clinic of Home Visits, Sapporo, Japan

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• José Francisco Rodríguez-Vázquez,

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

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anatomy and Human Embryology, Institute of Embryology, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

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• Shinichi Abe

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

  * E-mail: abesh@tdc.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Tokyo Dental College, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4632-9736

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