About the Authors

Xian-Tao Zeng

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicne, Shiyan, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China

Ming-Li Tu

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicne, Shiyan, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China

Dong-Yan Liu

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicne, Shiyan, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China

Dong Zheng

Affiliation School of Stomatology, Hubei University of Medicne, Shiyan, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China

Jing Zhang

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicne, Shiyan, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China

WeiDong Leng

lengtaihe@163.com.

Affiliations Department of Stomatology, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicne, Shiyan, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China, School of Stomatology, Hubei University of Medicne, Shiyan, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XTZ WDL. Performed the experiments: XTZ MLT DYL. Analyzed the data: XTZ DZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XTZ. Wrote the paper: XTZ DZ JZ. Critically reviewed paper: MLT WDL.