From the Departments of *Orthopaedic Surgery
and †Pharmacology, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Hirosaki,
and ‡Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Dentistry, Okayama University Dental School, Okayama, Japan.
Supported by the Research Foundation for Pharmaceutical Science and the Naito Foundation, Japan. Supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Specific Diseases from the Ministry of Public Health and Welfare of Japan.
Acknowledgment date: July 31, 2001.
First revision date: December 10, 2001.
Acceptance date: February 20, 2002.
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Ken-Ichi Furukawa, PhD
Department of Pharmacology
Hirosaki University School of Medicine
5 Zaifu-cho, Hirosaki 036-8562
Japan.
E-mail: [email protected]
Device status/drug statement: The submitted manuscript does not contain information about medical devices or drugs.
Conflict of interest: No funds were received in support of this work. No benefits in any form have been or will be received from a commercial party related directly or indirectly to the subject of this manuscript.
