About the Authors

Benjamin Rogala

Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin Rogala, Yonghui Li

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Yonghui Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin Rogala, Yonghui Li

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Sa Li

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Xiaoyu Chen

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Gilbert J. Kirouac

kirouac@cc.umanitoba.ca

Affiliations Department of Oral Biology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL GK. Performed the experiments: BR SL XC. Analyzed the data: SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GK YL BR.