About the Authors

En-Rung Chiang

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan, Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei 112, Taiwan

Hsiao-Li Ma

Affiliations Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan, Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei 112, Taiwan

Jung-Pan Wang

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan, Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei 112, Taiwan

Chien-Lin Liu

Affiliations Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan, Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei 112, Taiwan

Tain-Hsiung Chen

Affiliations Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan, Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei 112, Taiwan

Shih-Chieh Hung

hung3340@gmail.com

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan, Institute of Pharmacology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan, Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei 112, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan, Integrative Stem Cell Center & Department of Orthopedics, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung 404, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung 404, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ERC HLM JPW SCH. Performed the experiments: ERC JPW CLL SCH. Analyzed the data: ERC HLM JPW CLL THC SCH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ERC SCH. Wrote the paper: ERC HLM JPW THC SCH.