Mototani, Yasumasa
Okamura, Tadashi
Goto, Motohito
Shimizu, Yukiko
Yanobu-Takanashi, Rieko
Ito, Aiko
Kawamura, Naoya
Yagisawa, Yuka
Umeki, Daisuke
Nariyama, Megumi
Suita, Kenji
Ohnuki, Yoshiki
Shiozawa, Kouichi
Sahara, Yoshinori
Kozasa, Tohru
Saeki, Yasutake
Okumura, Satoshi
Funding for this research was provided by:
KAKENHI Grant (22791147, 20790860, 15K18973, 24970219, 17K12067, 17K11977, 16H05300, 17K17342, 23591087, 15K12330, 26463127, 26861803)
MEXT-Supported Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities (S1511018)
the Naito Foundation (2015-119)
SENSHIN Medical Research Foundation
an Academic Contribution from Pfizer Japan (AC160910, AC1500818, AC170780)
the Research Foundation for Community Medicine
Research Promotion Grant from the Society for Tsurumi University School of Dental Medicine (28008, 28006, 29007, 29002, 27010)
Yokohama Academic Foundation
Research Promotion Grant from the Society for Tsurumi University School of Dental Nedicine (27010)
Mitsui Life Social Welfare Foundation (None)
Article History
Received: 20 June 2017
Revised: 21 January 2018
Accepted: 14 February 2018
First Online: 2 March 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
: All procedures and protocols for the experiments were approved by the Committee for Animal Research of Tsurumi University and National Center for Global Health and Medicine.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.