About the Authors
- Anton V. Borovjagin
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Affiliations Department of Periodontics, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Institute of Oral Health Research, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Juan Dong
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Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Dong, Michael J. Passineau, Mary MacDougall
Affiliations Department of Orthodontics, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Institute of Oral Health Research, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Michael J. Passineau
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Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Dong, Michael J. Passineau, Mary MacDougall
Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Allegheny-Singer Research Institute, West-Penn Allegheny Health System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Changchun Ren
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Affiliations Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Institute of Oral Health Research, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Ejvis Lamani
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Affiliations Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Institute of Oral Health Research, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Olga A. Mamaeva
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Affiliation Institute of Oral Health Research, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Hongju Wu
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Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Division of Human Gene Therapy, Department of Medicine, The Gene Therapy Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Enid Keyser
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Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Miho Murakami
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Affiliation Division of Human Gene Therapy, Department of Medicine, The Gene Therapy Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Shuo Chen
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Affiliation Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Dental School University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
- Mary MacDougall
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Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Dong, Michael J. Passineau, Mary MacDougall
* E-mail: macdougall@uab.edu
Affiliations Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Institute of Oral Health Research, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AVB MJP JD OAM M. MacDougall. Performed the experiments: AVB MJP JD OAM CR EL EK SC M. MacDougall. Analyzed the data: AVB OAM JD MJP M. MacDougall. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: M. Murakami HW EK OAM SC M. MacDougall. Wrote the paper: AVB MJP OAM JD M. MacDougall. Obtaining informed consent from the patient/parent: JD MJM.