About the Authors

Ping Sheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Sheng, Lijun Hou, Xiang Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Shanghai Institute of Neurosurgery, Military Institute of Neurosurgery, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Lijun Hou

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Sheng, Lijun Hou, Xiang Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Shanghai Institute of Neurosurgery, Military Institute of Neurosurgery, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Xiang Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Sheng, Lijun Hou, Xiang Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Shanghai Institute of Neurosurgery, Military Institute of Neurosurgery, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Xiaowen Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Shanghai Institute of Neurosurgery, Military Institute of Neurosurgery, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Chengguang Huang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Shanghai Institute of Neurosurgery, Military Institute of Neurosurgery, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Mingkun Yu

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Shanghai Institute of Neurosurgery, Military Institute of Neurosurgery, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Xi Han

dr.hanxi@yahoo.com (XH); dongyan2006@yahoo.com (YD)

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Yan Dong

dr.hanxi@yahoo.com (XH); dongyan2006@yahoo.com (YD)

Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Shanghai Institute of Neurosurgery, Military Institute of Neurosurgery, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China, Neuroscience Center, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China,

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YD XH XW. Performed the experiments: XH PS LJH XW CGH. Analyzed the data: LJH XWW MKY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XH PS LJH XW XWW CGH. Wrote the manuscript: YD XH PS.