About the Authors

Dafu Chen

Affiliation Laboratory of Bone Tissue Engineering, Beijing Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, Beijing JiShuiTan Hospital, Beijing, China

Yang Li

Affiliation Bone Research Laboratory, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Zhiyu Zhou

Affiliation Department of Spine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Yonggang Xing

Affiliation Laboratory of Bone Tissue Engineering, Beijing Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, Beijing JiShuiTan Hospital, Beijing, China

Yu Zhong

Affiliation Department of Spine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Xuenong Zou

Affiliation Department of Spine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Wei Tian

tianweijst@yahoo.com.cn (WT); Chi5.Zhang@utsouthwestern.edu (CZ)

Affiliation Laboratory of Bone Tissue Engineering, Beijing Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, Beijing JiShuiTan Hospital, Beijing, China

Chi Zhang

tianweijst@yahoo.com.cn (WT); Chi5.Zhang@utsouthwestern.edu (CZ)

Affiliation Bone Research Laboratory, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CZ WT. Performed the experiments: DC YL ZZ YX YZ. Analyzed the data: CZ XZ WT. Wrote the paper: DC CZ.