About the Authors

Yuxin Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuxin Ma, Shuxing Wang

Affiliations MGH Center for Translational Pain Research, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Anatomy, School of Basic Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Department of Anatomy, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Shuxing Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuxin Ma, Shuxing Wang

Affiliation MGH Center for Translational Pain Research, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yinghong Tian

Affiliation MGH Center for Translational Pain Research, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lucy Chen

Affiliation MGH Center for Translational Pain Research, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Guoying Li

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, School of Basic Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Jianren Mao

jmao@partners.org

Affiliation MGH Center for Translational Pain Research, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JM SW. Performed the experiments: YM SW YT GL. Analyzed the data: YM SW. Wrote the manuscript: JM SW LC.