About the Authors

Jiang Tao

Affiliation Department of General Dentistry, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Shanghai, China

Yue Zhai

Affiliation Department of General Dentistry, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Shanghai, China

Hyun Park

Affiliation Department of General Dentistry, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Shanghai, China

Junli Han

Affiliation Department of General Dentistry, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Shanghai, China

Jianhui Dong

Affiliation Department of General Dentistry, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Shanghai, China

Ming Xie

Affiliation Department of Prosthodontics, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Shanghai, China

Ting Gu

Affiliation Department of Oral Pathology, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Shanghai, China

Keidren Lewi

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Windsor University School of Medicine, St. Kitts & Nevis

Fang Ji

smilefang98@hotmail.com (FJ); w.jia@ubc.ca (WJ)

Affiliation Department of Orthodontics, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Shanghai, China

William Jia

smilefang98@hotmail.com (FJ); w.jia@ubc.ca (WJ)

Affiliation Brain Research Centre, Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FJ WJ. Performed the experiments: JT YZ HP JH JD MX TG KL. Analyzed the data: FJ WJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FJ. Wrote the paper: JT FJ WJ.