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DKK3 Overexpression Increases the Malignant Properties of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Cells

Naoki Katase^*†, Shin-Ichiro Nishimatsu^†‡, Akira Yamauchi^§, Masahiro Yamamura^¶, Kumiko Terada^†‡, Masumi Itadani^§, Naoko Okada^¶#, Nur Mohammad Monsur Hassan^**, Hitoshi Nagatsuka^††, Tohru Ikeda^*‡‡, Tsutomu Nohno^†, Shuichi Fujita^*

* Department of Oral Pathology and Bone Metabolism, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
† Department of Molecular and Developmental Biology, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
‡ Department of Natural Sciences, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
§ Department of Biochemistry, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
¶ Department of Clinical Oncology, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
# Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
** School of Dentistry and Health Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Orange, New South Wales, Australia
†† Department of Oral Pathology and Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
‡‡ Department of Oral Pathology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan