Saito, Akiko
Ooki, Akio
Nakamura, Takashi
Onodera, Shoko
Hayashi, Kamichika
Hasegawa, Daigo
Okudaira, Takahito
Watanabe, Katsuhito
Kato, Hiroshi
Onda, Takeshi
Watanabe, Akira
Kosaki, Kenjiro
Nishimura, Ken
Ohtaka, Manami
Nakanishi, Mahito
Sakamoto, Teruo
Yamaguchi, Akira
Sueishi, Kenji
Azuma, Toshifumi
Funding for this research was provided by:
JSPS KAKENHI for young scientists (26861686)
JSPS KAKENHI for young scientists (26861560)
JSPS KAKENHI for young scientists (16K20427)
JSPS KAKENHI for young scientists (16K20428)
JSPS KAKENHI (25462900)
Article History
Received: 27 September 2017
Revised: 24 November 2017
Accepted: 19 December 2017
First Online: 22 January 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Human samples were obtained and processed after informed consent was provided in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and under the approval of the Ethics Committee for clinical research at the Tokyo Dental College (Tokyo Japan) (permit no. 533). All procedures performed with live animals conformed to the ethical guidelines established by the Japanese Council on Animal Care and were approved by the Animal Care Committee of Tokyo Dental College (permit no. 290401).
: Informed consent was obtained from all patients.
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