Shirato, Midori https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2351-2215
Nakamura, Keisuke
Tenkumo, Taichi
Niwano, Yoshimi
Kanno, Taro
Sasaki, Keiichi
Lingström, Peter
Örtengren, Ulf
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (19K19014)
Stiftelsen Patentmedelsfonden för Odontologisk Profylaxforskning (I 2017-008, I 2018-014)
Västra Götalandsregionen (TUAGBG-926091)
University of Gothenburg
Article History
Received: 16 March 2022
Accepted: 26 November 2022
First Online: 9 December 2022
Declarations
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: All applicable international, national, and institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed. The protocol for collecting rat molars was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Animal Experiment Committee of Tohoku University (approval number: 2017DnA-047).
: For this type of study, formal consent is not required.
: M. Shirato, K. Nakamura, T. Kanno, and K. Sasaki are members of an academia-industry collaboration laboratory at the Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry, which receives funding from Luke. Co. Ltd., Sendai, Japan. This academia-industry collaboration was examined and approved by the Conflict-of-Interest Management Committee at Tohoku University. Luke. Co., Ltd. had no role in the study design, data collection, and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
: The funders had no role in the study design, data collection, and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.