About the Authors
- Shojiro Kitajima
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Contributed equally to this work with: Shojiro Kitajima, Yasusei Kudo
Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathobiology, Division of Frontier Medical Science, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
- Yasusei Kudo
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Contributed equally to this work with: Shojiro Kitajima, Yasusei Kudo
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ykudo@hiroshima-u.ac.jp (YK); ttakata@hiroshima-u.ac.jp (TT)
Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathobiology, Division of Frontier Medical Science, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
- Ikuko Ogawa
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Affiliation Center of Oral Clinical Examination, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan
- Masaaki Tatsuka
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Affiliation Department of Regulatory Radiobiology, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
- Hidehiko Kawai
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Affiliation Department of Regulatory Radiobiology, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
- Michele Pagano
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, New York University Cancer Institute, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America
- Takashi Takata
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ykudo@hiroshima-u.ac.jp (YK); ttakata@hiroshima-u.ac.jp (TT)
Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathobiology, Division of Frontier Medical Science, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MP YK TT. Performed the experiments: YK SK IO MT HK. Analyzed the data: YK SK IO TT MT HK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YK TT MT. Wrote the paper: MP YK SK TT.