About the Authors

Xiong Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiong Zhao, Zi-xiang Wu, Yang Zhang

Zi-xiang Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiong Zhao, Zi-xiang Wu, Yang Zhang

Yang Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiong Zhao, Zi-xiang Wu, Yang Zhang

Ming-xuan Gao
Ya-bo Yan
Peng-chong Cao
Yuan Zang
Wei Lei

wlspine@163.com

Affiliation Department of Orthopeadics, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WL XZ. Performed the experiments: XZ ZW Yang Zhang MG YY PC Yuan Zang. Analyzed the data: XZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XZ. Wrote the paper: XZ ZW Yang Zhang WL.