About the Authors

Baoshan Xu

Affiliation Department of minimally invasive spine surgery, Tianjin Hospital, 406 Jie Fang Nan Road, Hexi District, Tianjin, 300211, People’s Republic of China

Haiwei Xu

Affiliations Department of minimally invasive spine surgery, Tianjin Hospital, 406 Jie Fang Nan Road, Hexi District, Tianjin, 300211, People’s Republic of China, Tianjin medical university, Tianjin, 300070, People’s Republic of China

Yaohong Wu

Affiliations Department of minimally invasive spine surgery, Tianjin Hospital, 406 Jie Fang Nan Road, Hexi District, Tianjin, 300211, People’s Republic of China, Tianjin medical university, Tianjin, 300070, People’s Republic of China

Xiulan Li

Affiliation Cell Engineering Laboratory of Orthopaedic Institute, Tianjin Hospital, Tianjin, 300211, People’s Republic of China

Yang Zhang

Affiliation Cell Engineering Laboratory of Orthopaedic Institute, Tianjin Hospital, Tianjin, 300211, People’s Republic of China

Xinlong Ma

yangqiang1980@126.com (QY); maxinlong8686@sina.com (XM)

Affiliation Department of minimally invasive spine surgery, Tianjin Hospital, 406 Jie Fang Nan Road, Hexi District, Tianjin, 300211, People’s Republic of China

Qiang Yang

yangqiang1980@126.com (QY); maxinlong8686@sina.com (XM)

Affiliations Department of minimally invasive spine surgery, Tianjin Hospital, 406 Jie Fang Nan Road, Hexi District, Tianjin, 300211, People’s Republic of China, Tianjin medical university, Tianjin, 300070, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BX HX YW QY. Performed the experiments: BX HX YW. Analyzed the data: BX XL YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BX XM QY. Wrote the paper: BX HX YW.