About the Authors

Yao-Qing Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yao-Qing Yu, Feng Zhao

Affiliation Institute for Biomedical Sciences of Pain and Institute for Functional Brain Disorders, Tangdu Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China

Feng Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Yao-Qing Yu, Feng Zhao

Affiliation Institute for Biomedical Sciences of Pain and Institute for Functional Brain Disorders, Tangdu Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China

Su-Min Guan

junchen@fmmu.edu.cn (JC); jchsmg@fmmu.edu.cn (SG)

Affiliation School of Stomatology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China

Jun Chen

junchen@fmmu.edu.cn (JC); jchsmg@fmmu.edu.cn (SG)

Affiliations Institute for Biomedical Sciences of Pain and Institute for Functional Brain Disorders, Tangdu Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China, Institute for Biomedical Sciences of Pain, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YY JC. Performed the experiments: YY FZ. Analyzed the data: YY SG JC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YY SG JC. Wrote the paper: YY SG JC.