About the Authors
- Hongbing Jiang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hongbing Jiang, Wei Chen
Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, College of Stomatology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China
- Wei Chen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hongbing Jiang, Wei Chen
* E-mail: ypli@uab.edu (YPL); wechen@uab.edu (WC)
Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Guochun Zhu
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Lijie Zhang
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Affiliations Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease, The Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, People's Republic of China
- Byron Tucker
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Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Harvard School of Dental Medicine Department of Restorative Dentistry and in Endodontics, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Liang Hao
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Shengmei Feng
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Hongliang Ci
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Junqing Ma
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Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, College of Stomatology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China
- Lin Wang
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Affiliation College of Stomatology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China
- Philip Stashenko
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Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease, The Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Yi-Ping Li
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* E-mail: ypli@uab.edu (YPL); wechen@uab.edu (WC)
Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HJ WC HC BT LH PS LW YPL. Performed the experiments: HJ WC HC BT LH LZ GZ SF JM YPL. Analyzed the data: HJ WC HC BT LH PS LW YPL. Wrote the paper: HJ WC HC BT LH YPL.