About the Authors

Yao Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Yao Chen, Jian-xia Fan, Zhao-long Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine of the Ministry of Education, Division of Histology and Embryology, Medical College, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Jian-xia Fan

Contributed equally to this work with: Yao Chen, Jian-xia Fan, Zhao-long Zhang

Affiliation Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, International Peace Maternity and Child Health Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Zhao-long Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yao Chen, Jian-xia Fan, Zhao-long Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine of the Ministry of Education, Division of Histology and Embryology, Medical College, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Guang Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine of the Ministry of Education, Division of Histology and Embryology, Medical College, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Xin Cheng

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine of the Ministry of Education, Division of Histology and Embryology, Medical College, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Manli Chuai

Affiliation Division of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom

Kenneth Ka Ho Lee

yang_xuesong@126.com (XY); kaholee@cuhk.edu.hk (KKHL)

Affiliation Stem Cell and Regeneration Thematic Research Programme, School of Biomedical Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

Xuesong Yang

yang_xuesong@126.com (XY); kaholee@cuhk.edu.hk (KKHL)

Affiliations Key Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine of the Ministry of Education, Division of Histology and Embryology, Medical College, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, Institute of Fetal-Preterm Labor Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KKHL XY. Performed the experiments: YC JXF ZLZ GW. Analyzed the data: YC JXF ZLZ XY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XC MC. Wrote the paper: YC XY.