About the Authors

Yi Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Yang, Danlin Pang, Chenghu Hu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Military Stomatology, Center for Tissue Engineering, School of Stomatology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, Department of Oral Prosthodontics, School of Stomatology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Danlin Pang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Yang, Danlin Pang, Chenghu Hu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Military Stomatology, Center for Tissue Engineering, School of Stomatology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, Xiangya Stomatology Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Chenghu Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Yang, Danlin Pang, Chenghu Hu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Military Stomatology, Center for Tissue Engineering, School of Stomatology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, Xi’an Institute of Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine, Shaanxi, China

Yajie Lv

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shannxi, China

Tao He

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Military Stomatology, Center for Tissue Engineering, School of Stomatology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Yulin An

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Military Stomatology, Center for Tissue Engineering, School of Stomatology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Zhangui Tang

dengzh@fmmu.edu.cn (ZD)’ tangzhanguixiangya@163.com (ZT)

Current address: Xiangya Stomatology Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Affiliation Xiangya Stomatology Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Zhihong Deng

dengzh@fmmu.edu.cn (ZD)’ tangzhanguixiangya@163.com (ZT)

Current address: Department of Otolaryngology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Military Stomatology, Center for Tissue Engineering, School of Stomatology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, Department of Otolaryngology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CH ZT ZD. Performed the experiments: YY DP CH TH YA. Analyzed the data: CH YY YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YY DP CH TH YA. Wrote the paper: YY CH ZD ZT DP YL.