About the Authors

Zhao-hui Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhao-hui Xu, Qi Yang, Lan Ma

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Qi Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhao-hui Xu, Qi Yang, Lan Ma

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Lan Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhao-hui Xu, Qi Yang, Lan Ma

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Shui-bing Liu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Guang-sheng Chen

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Xi'an Child's Hospital, Xi'an, China

Yu-mei Wu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Xiao-qiang Li

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Gang Liu

liugene@hotmail.com (GL); minggao@fmmu.edu.cn (MGZ)

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Nanjing General Hospital of Najing Military Commend, PLA, Najing, China

Ming-gao Zhao

liugene@hotmail.com (GL); minggao@fmmu.edu.cn (MGZ)

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MGZ. Performed the experiments: ZHX QY LM SBL GSC YMW XQL. Analyzed the data: GL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GL. Wrote the paper: MGZ.