About the Authors

Jing Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Li, Ming-Ming Zhang, Ke Tu, Jian Wang

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, School of Medicine, Xi’an, 710061, China, Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, K. K. Leung Brain Research Centre, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, 710032, China

Ming-Ming Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Li, Ming-Ming Zhang, Ke Tu, Jian Wang

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, K. K. Leung Brain Research Centre, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, 710032, China

Ke Tu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Li, Ming-Ming Zhang, Ke Tu, Jian Wang

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, K. K. Leung Brain Research Centre, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, 710032, China

Jian Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Li, Ming-Ming Zhang, Ke Tu, Jian Wang

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, K. K. Leung Brain Research Centre, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, 710032, China

Ban Feng

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, K. K. Leung Brain Research Centre, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, 710032, China

Zi-Nan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, K. K. Leung Brain Research Centre, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, 710032, China

Jie Lei

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, K. K. Leung Brain Research Centre, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, 710032, China

Yun-Qing Li

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, K. K. Leung Brain Research Centre, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, 710032, China

Jian-Qing Du

chtkkl@fmmu.edu.cn (TC); dujianq@mail.xjtu.edu.cn (JQD)

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, School of Medicine, Xi’an, 710061, China, Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, K. K. Leung Brain Research Centre, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, 710032, China

Tao Chen

chtkkl@fmmu.edu.cn (TC); dujianq@mail.xjtu.edu.cn (JQD)

Affiliations Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, K. K. Leung Brain Research Centre, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, 710032, China, Center for Neuron and Disease, Frontier Institute of Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TC JQD. Performed the experiments: J. Li MMZ BF KT JW. Analyzed the data: J. Li MMZ BF KT JW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW ZNZ J. Lei. Wrote the paper: J. Li TC JQD YQL.