About the Authors

Dechao Kong

Contributed equally to this work with: Dechao Kong, Tiansheng Zheng

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Tiansheng Zheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Dechao Kong, Tiansheng Zheng

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Ming Zhang

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Daode Wang

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Shihao Du

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Xiang Li

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Jiahu Fang

fjh4508@163.com (JF); xiaojiancao@gmail.com (XC)

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Xiaojian Cao

fjh4508@163.com (JF); xiaojiancao@gmail.com (XC)

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JHF XJC. Performed the experiments: DCK TSZ. Analyzed the data: DDW MZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SHD XL. Wrote the paper: DCK.