About the Authors

Fei Luo

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Southwest Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Tian-Yong Hou

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Southwest Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Ze-Hua Zhang

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Southwest Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Zhao Xie

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Southwest Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Xue-Hui Wu

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Southwest Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Jian-Zhong Xu

xujianzhong1962@163.com

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Southwest Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Obtained permission for use of hMSCs: TYH. Conceived and designed the experiments: FL JZX. Performed the experiments: FL TYH ZHZ ZX. Analyzed the data: XHW JZX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TYH. Wrote the paper: FL TYH.