About the Authors

Hairui Yuan

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Yanmei Niu

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Xiaolei Liu

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Fengying Yang

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Wenyan Niu

Affiliation Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Science, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Li Fu

lifu@tijmu.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China, Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Science, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LF HRY. Performed the experiments: HRY YMN XLL. Analyzed the data: HRY YMN XLL FYY WYN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LF FYY WYN. Wrote the paper: HRY LF YMN XLL.