Nakamura, Keisuke http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6368-2569
Shirato, Midori
Tenkumo, Taichi
Kanno, Taro
Westerlund, Anna
Ă–rtengren, Ulf
Sasaki, Keiichi
Niwano, Yoshimi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4943-2229
Funding for this research was provided by:
MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (16K20531, 15H05033)
Article History
Received: 12 July 2018
Accepted: 27 February 2019
First Online: 18 March 2019
Competing Interests
: Dr. Nakamura, Dr. Tenkumo, Dr. Shirato, Prof. Kanno, and Prof. Sasaki are members of an academia-industry collaboration laboratory at Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry, which receives funding from AZ. Co. Ltd. (Sendai, Japan). This academia-industry collaboration has been examined and approved by the Conflict of Interest Management Committee at Tohoku University. AZ. Co. Ltd had no role in the study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication. These authors declare no other competing interests. In addition, the other authors declare they have no competing interests.