About the Authors

Yingchun Dong

dongyingchun1001@hotmail.com (YD); liuzhiqiang0397@gmail.com (ZL)

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Institute and Hospital of Stomatology, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China

Pengfei Li

Affiliation Department of Laboratory, Jiangsu Province Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China

Yanhong Ni

Affiliation Central Laboratory, Institute and Hospital of Stomatology, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China

Junjie Zhao

Affiliation Department of Periodontics, Institute and Hospital of Stomatology, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China

Zhiqiang Liu

dongyingchun1001@hotmail.com (YD); liuzhiqiang0397@gmail.com (ZL)

Affiliation Department of Lymphoma and Myeloma, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YD ZL. Performed the experiments: PL YN JZ. Analyzed the data: ZL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YD ZL PL YN JZ. Wrote the paper: YD ZL PL YN JZ.