About the Authors
- Kai Jiao
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kai Jiao, Jing Zhang, Mian Zhang, Yuying Wei
Affiliation Department of Oral Anatomy and Physiology and TMD, School of Stomatology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
- Jing Zhang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kai Jiao, Jing Zhang, Mian Zhang, Yuying Wei
Affiliation Department of Oral Anatomy and Physiology and TMD, School of Stomatology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
- Mian Zhang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kai Jiao, Jing Zhang, Mian Zhang, Yuying Wei
Affiliation Department of Oral Anatomy and Physiology and TMD, School of Stomatology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
- Yuying Wei
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kai Jiao, Jing Zhang, Mian Zhang, Yuying Wei
Affiliation Department of Immunology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
- Yaoping Wu
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Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
- Zhong Ying Qiu
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Affiliation Department of Oral Anatomy and Physiology and TMD, School of Stomatology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
- Jianjun He
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Affiliation Department of Oral Anatomy and Physiology and TMD, School of Stomatology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
- Yunxin Cao
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Affiliation Department of Immunology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
- Jintao Hu
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Affiliation Department of Immunology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
- Han Zhu
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Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
- Li-Na Niu
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Affiliation Department of Prosthodontics, School of Stomatology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
- Xu Cao
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Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Kun Yang
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* E-mail: yangkunkun@fmmu.edu.cn (KY); mqwang@fmmu.edu.cn (MQW)
Affiliation Department of Immunology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
- Mei-Qing Wang
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* E-mail: yangkunkun@fmmu.edu.cn (KY); mqwang@fmmu.edu.cn (MQW)
Affiliation Department of Oral Anatomy and Physiology and TMD, School of Stomatology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Important suggestions on the experimental design and critical comments on the manuscript: XC. Conceived and designed the experiments: MQW KY. Performed the experiments: KJ JZ MZ Y. Wei. Analyzed the data: YC J.Hu LNN ZYQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HZ Y. Wu J. He. Wrote the paper: KJ MQW KY.