About the Authors

Jingning Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jingning Liu, Fangqiao Lv, Wen Sun

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, The Research Center for Bone and Stem Cells, Department of Anatomy, Histology, and Embryology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Fangqiao Lv

Contributed equally to this work with: Jingning Liu, Fangqiao Lv, Wen Sun

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, The Research Center for Bone and Stem Cells, Department of Anatomy, Histology, and Embryology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Wen Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Jingning Liu, Fangqiao Lv, Wen Sun

Affiliation Institute of Dental Research, Stomatological College, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Chunxiang Tao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, The Research Center for Bone and Stem Cells, Department of Anatomy, Histology, and Embryology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Guoxian Ding

Affiliation Department of Gerontology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Andrew Karaplis

Affiliation Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Edward Brown

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

David Goltzman

Affiliation Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Dengshun Miao

dsmiao@njmu.edu.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, The Research Center for Bone and Stem Cells, Department of Anatomy, Histology, and Embryology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Gerontology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DM. Performed the experiments: JL FL WS CT. Analyzed the data: JL WS GD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GD AK EB DG. Wrote the paper: DM EB DG.