About the Authors
- Feng Chen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Feng Chen, Xinli Zhang
Affiliations Dental and Craniofacial Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States of America, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Xinli Zhang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Feng Chen, Xinli Zhang
Affiliation Dental and Craniofacial Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States of America
- Shan Sun
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Affiliation School of Dentistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States of America
- Janette N. Zara
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Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States of America
- Xuan Zou
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Affiliation Dental and Craniofacial Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States of America
- Robert Chiu
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Affiliation School of Dentistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States of America
- Cymbelin T. Culiat
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Affiliation Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America
- Kang Ting
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Affiliations Dental and Craniofacial Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States of America, School of Dentistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States of America
- Chia Soo
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* E-mail: bsoo@ucla.edu
Affiliation Orthopaedic Hospital, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and the Orthopaedic Hospital Research Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Bone Biologics, Inc. licensed Nell-1 related patents from UCLA. C.S., K.T. and X. Zhang are founders of Bone Biologics, Inc. and inventors of the related patents. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Patent numbers and Dates: 7.052.856 on 30-May-2006, 7.544.486 on 09-Jun-2009, 7.687.462 on 30-Mar-2010.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: FC KT CS X. Zhang. Performed the experiments: FC X. Zou X. Zhang SS. Analyzed the data: FC RC KT CS X. Zhang. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FC CTC KT CS X. Zhang. Wrote the paper: FC JNZ KT CS X. Zhang.