Editors
Editors-in-Chief
Toshio Matsumoto, MD, PhD
Executive Advisor of the Fuji Memorial Institute of Medical Sciences,
University of Tokushima,
Tokushima, Japan
Toshiyuki Yoneda, DDS, PhD
Research Professor and Emeritus Professor,
Department of Biochemistry,
Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Osaka, Japan
On leave of absence from Indiana University School of Medicine,
Indianapolis, IN, USA
Editors Emeriti
Takuo Fujita, Osaka, Japan
Yoshiki Seino, Osaka, Japan
Fujio Suzuki, Osaka, Japan
Associate Editors
Masahiro Abe, MD, PhD, Tokushima University, Japan
Ho-Yeon Chung, MD, PhD, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Emma Duncan, MBBS, PhD, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Australia
Masafumi Fukagawa, MD, PhD, Tokai University, Japan
Seiji Fukumoto, MD, PhD, Tokushima University, Japan
Hiroshi Hagino, MD, PhD, Tottori University, Japan
Masayuki Iki, MD, PhD, Kindai University, Japan
Yuuki Imai, MD, PhD, Ehime University, Japan
Daisuke Inoue, MD, PhD, Teikyo University, Japan
Masaru Ishii, MD, PhD, Osaka University, Japan
Toshimi Mitigami, MD, PhD, Osaka Women's and Children's Hospital, Japan
Riko Nishimura, DDS, PhD, Osaka University, Japan
Lilian I Plotkin, PhD, Indiana University, USA
G. David Roodman, MD, PhD, Indiana University, USA
Mitsuru Saito, MD, PhD, Jikei University, Japan
Akinori Sakai, MD, PhD, University of Occupational and Health, Japan
Hiroshi Takayanagi, MD, PhD, University of Tokyo, Japan
Yasuhiro Takeuchi, MD, PhD, Toranomon Hospital, Japan
Sakae Tanaka, MD, PhD, University of Tokyo, Japan
Editorial Board
Haruhiko Akiyama, Gifu
Hiroshi Asahara, Tokyo
Ko Chiba, Nagasaki
Kosuke Ebina, Osaka
Itsuro Endo, Tokushima
Yoichi Ezura,Tokyo
Ikuma Fujiwara, Miyagi
Makoto Fujiwara, Osaka
Saeko Fujiwara, Hiroshima
Takefumi Furuya, Tokyo
Kosei Hasegawa, Okayama
Kenji Hata, Osaka
Masahiro Hiasa, Tokushima
Toru Hiraga, Nagano
Kousuke Iba, Hokkaido
Tadahiro Iimura, Hokkaido
Satoshi Ikeda, Fukuoka
Takeshi Imamura, Ehime
Hideaki Ishibashi, Saitama
Nobuaki Ito, Tokyo
Jun Iwamoto, Gunma
Eijiro Jimi, Fukuoka
Hiroshi Kaji, Osaka
Hiroshi Kamioka, Okayama
Ippei Kanazawa, Shimane
Takenobu Katagiri, Saitama
Junichiro James Kazama, Fukushima
Yuka Kinoshita, Tokyo
Yasuhiro Kobayashi, Nagano
Tatsuya Koike, Wakayama
Hirotaka Komaba, Kanagawa
Satoshi Kubota, Okayama
Takuo Kubota, Osaka
Ritsuko Masuyama, Shiga
Koichi Matsuo, Tokyo
Naohisa Miyakoshi, Akita
Takeshi Miyamoto, Kumamoto
Toshihide Mizoguchi, Tokyo
Yuko Nakamichi, Nagano
Ichiro Nakamura, Kanagawa
Tomoki Nakashima, Tokyo
Noriyuki Namba, Tottori
Akira Nifuji, Kanagawa
Kiichi Nonaka, Tokyo
Sumito Ogawa, Tokyo
Yosuke Okada, Fukuoka
Nobukazu Okimoto, Osaka
Kayoko Furukawa Okuma, Fukuoka
Satoshi Soen, Hyogo
Akihiro Sudo, Mie
Atsushi Suzuki, Aichi
Akira Taguchi, Nagano
Ichiro Takada, Tokyo
Junichi Takada, Hokkaido
Shinjiro Takata, Tokushima
Masato Tamura, Hokkaido
Shinya Tanaka, Saitama
Masakazu Terauchi, Tokyo
Tadao Tsuboyama, Kyoto
Manabu Tsukamoto, Fukuoka
Kazuhiro Uenishi, Saitama
Reiko Watanabe-Inoue, Chiba
Masahiro Yamamoto, Shimane
Mika Yamauchi, Hyogo
Noriko Yoshimura, Tokyo
Advisory Board
Naoto Endo, Niigata
Masao Fukunaga, Okayama
Masako Ito, Nagasaki
Hisashi Iwata, Aichi
Shigeaki Kato, Fukushima
Yukio Kato, Hiroshima
Masayoshi Kumegawa, Saitama
Hideki Mizunuma, Fukushima
Rikushi Morita, Kyoto
Toshitaka Nakamura, Tokyo
Yoshiki Nishizawa, Osaka
Masaki Noda, Kanagawa
Hiromichi Norimatsu, Kagawa
Hajime Orimo, Tokyo
Hidehiro Ozawa, Niigata
Keiichi Ozono, Osaka
Teruki Sone, Okayama
Tastuo Suda, Saitama
Hideaki E. Takahashi, Niigata
Kunio Takaoka, Osaka
Masaharu Takigawa, Okayama
Yoshiya Tanaka, Fukuoka
Akira Yamaguchi. Tokyo
Hideki Yoshikawa, Osaka
International Advisory Board
Roland Baron, USA
David J. Baylink, USA
Daniel D. Bikle, USA
Roger Bouillon, Belgium
Barbara D. Boyan, USA
Alan Boyde, UK
Elisabeth H. Burger, Netherlands
David B. Burr, USA
William T. Butler, USA
Po-Quang Chen, Taiwan
Francis Glorieux, Canada
Ze'ev Hochberg, Israel
Webster S.S. Jee, USA
Chung-nam Kang, Korea
Gordon L. Klein, USA
Joseph M. Lane, USA
Sung-Kil Lim, Korea
Stavros Manolagas, USA
Robert R. Recker, USA
Jonathan Reeve, UK
Pamela G. Robey, USA
Ego Seeman, Australia
Eduardo Slatopolsky, USA
Marvin L. Tanzer, USA
Steven L. Teitelbaum, USA
John D. Termine, USA
Michael P. Whyte, USA
Tong-Shu Yang, China
Liu Zhonghou, China
Editorial Secretary
Kanako Nakakura
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