About the Authors

Ramaswamy Sharma

Affiliation Department of Cytokine Biology, Forsyth Institute, and Department of Developmental Biology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Masahiro Tsuchiya

Affiliation Division of Aging and Geriatric Dentistry, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Ziedonis Skobe

Affiliation Department of Cytokine Biology, Forsyth Institute, and Department of Developmental Biology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bakhos A. Tannous

Affiliation Departments of Neurology and Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

John D. Bartlett

jbartlett@forsyth.org

Affiliation Department of Cytokine Biology, Forsyth Institute, and Department of Developmental Biology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RS JDB. Performed the experiments: RS MT. Analyzed the data: RS ZS BAT JDB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZS BAT. Wrote the paper: RS JDB.