About the Authors

Mayilvahanan Shanmugam

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, Rutgers School of Dental Medicine, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Faiha El Abbar

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, Rutgers School of Dental Medicine, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Narayanan Ramasubbu

ramasun1@sdm.rutgers.edu

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, Rutgers School of Dental Medicine, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS NR. Performed the experiments: MS FEA. Analyzed the data: MS NR. Wrote the paper: MS NR.