About the Authors

Hiroki Takeuchi

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

Takanori Hirano

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

Sarah E. Whitmore

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

Ichijiro Morisaki

Affiliation Division of Special Care Dentistry, Osaka University Dental Hospital, Suita-Osaka, Japan

Atsuo Amano

Affiliation Department of Preventive Dentistry, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Suita-Osaka, Japan

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: HT SEW RJL. Performed the experiments: HT. Analyzed the data: HT TH IM AA RJL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HT TH. Wrote the paper: HT SEW IM AA RJL.