About the Authors

Qian Wang

Affiliations Center for Oral Health and Systemic Disease, School of Dentistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Christopher J. Wright

Affiliation Center for Oral Health and Systemic Disease, School of Dentistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Huang Dingming

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Silvia M. Uriarte

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Richard J. Lamont

rich.lamont@louisville.edu

Affiliation Center for Oral Health and Systemic Disease, School of Dentistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QW HD SU RL. Performed the experiments: QW CW. Analyzed the data: QW CW. Wrote the paper: QW CW HD SU RL.