About the Authors

Chuan Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Chuan Ma, Gaoyi Wu, Zhaoling Wang

CM, GW and ZW are joint first authors on this work

Affiliations Department of Stomatology, Jinan Military General Hospital, Jinan City, Shandong Province, China, College of Stomatology, Shandong University, Jinan City, Shandong Province, China, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine, Jinan City, Shandong Province, China

Gaoyi Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chuan Ma, Gaoyi Wu, Zhaoling Wang

CM, GW and ZW are joint first authors on this work

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, Jinan Military General Hospital, Jinan City, Shandong Province, China

Zhaoling Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chuan Ma, Gaoyi Wu, Zhaoling Wang

CM, GW and ZW are joint first authors on this work

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, Jinan Military General Hospital, Jinan City, Shandong Province, China

Peihuan Wang

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, Jinan Military General Hospital, Jinan City, Shandong Province, China

Longmei Wu

Affiliation cardiovascular medicine, He Bei medical University, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, China

Guoxiong Zhu

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, Jinan Military General Hospital, Jinan City, Shandong Province, China

Huaqiang Zhao

huaqiang_zh@163.com

Affiliations College of Stomatology, Shandong University, Jinan City, Shandong Province, China, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine, Jinan City, Shandong Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CM GW ZW PW LW HZ. Performed the experiments: CM GW ZW HZ. Analyzed the data: CM PW LW GZ HZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CM GW ZW HZ. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: CM GW HZ .