About the Authors

Kaining Liu

Affiliation Department of Periodontology, Peking University School and Hospital of Stomatology, Beijing, China

Huanxin Meng

kqhxmeng@bjmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Periodontology, Peking University School and Hospital of Stomatology, Beijing, China

Jianxia Hou

Affiliation Department of Periodontology, Peking University School and Hospital of Stomatology, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HXM KNL JXH. Performed the experiments: KNL. Analyzed the data: KNL JXH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HXM JXH. Wrote the paper: KNL HXM JXH.