About the Authors

Shengmei Feng

fengshengmei@yahoo.com.cn (SMF); lfdeng@msn.com (LFD)

Affiliation Shanghai Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, Shanghai Key Laboratory for Prevention and Treatment of Bone and Joint Diseases with Integrated Chinese-Western Medicine, Ruijin Hospital, Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Ming Cai

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming Cai, Pengcheng Liu

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Pengcheng Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming Cai, Pengcheng Liu

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Li Wei

Affiliation Shanghai Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, Shanghai Key Laboratory for Prevention and Treatment of Bone and Joint Diseases with Integrated Chinese-Western Medicine, Ruijin Hospital, Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Jinshen Wang

Affiliation Shanghai Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, Shanghai Key Laboratory for Prevention and Treatment of Bone and Joint Diseases with Integrated Chinese-Western Medicine, Ruijin Hospital, Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Jin Qi

Affiliation Shanghai Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, Shanghai Key Laboratory for Prevention and Treatment of Bone and Joint Diseases with Integrated Chinese-Western Medicine, Ruijin Hospital, Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Lianfu Deng

fengshengmei@yahoo.com.cn (SMF); lfdeng@msn.com (LFD)

Affiliation Shanghai Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, Shanghai Key Laboratory for Prevention and Treatment of Bone and Joint Diseases with Integrated Chinese-Western Medicine, Ruijin Hospital, Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SMF MC PCL. Performed the experiments: SMF LW JSW JQ. Analyzed the data: SMF MC PCL LFD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SMF LW LFD. Wrote the paper: SMF MC.