About the Authors

Lea H. Eckhard

Affiliation Department of Prosthodontics, the Hebrew University – Faculty of Dental Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel

Asaf Sol

Affiliation Institute of Dental Science, the Hebrew University – Faculty of Dental Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel

Ester Abtew

Affiliation Institute for Drug Research, School of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Yechiel Shai

Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Abraham J. Domb

Affiliation Institute for Drug Research, School of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Gilad Bachrach

Contributed equally to this work with: Gilad Bachrach, Nurit Beyth

Affiliation Institute of Dental Science, the Hebrew University – Faculty of Dental Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel

Nurit Beyth

Contributed equally to this work with: Gilad Bachrach, Nurit Beyth

nuritb@ekmd.huji.ac.il

Affiliation Department of Prosthodontics, the Hebrew University – Faculty of Dental Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LHE NB GB AS. Performed the experiments: LHE. Analyzed the data: LHE NB GB AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AJD EA YS NB GB AS. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: LHE NB GB AS.