About the Authors

Blandine Poulet

Affiliation Department of Musculoskeletal Biology, Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, University of Liverpool, Apex building, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Ke Liu

Affiliation Department of Musculoskeletal Biology, Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, University of Liverpool, Apex building, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Darren Plumb

Affiliation Department of Musculoskeletal Biology, Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, University of Liverpool, Apex building, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Phoung Vo

Affiliation Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Oxford, United Kingdom

Mittal Shah

Affiliation Comparative Biomedical Sciences, The Royal Veterinary College, London, United Kingdom

Katherine Staines

Affiliation Comparative Biomedical Sciences, The Royal Veterinary College, London, United Kingdom

Alexandra Sampson

Affiliation Comparative Biomedical Sciences, The Royal Veterinary College, London, United Kingdom

Hiroyuki Nakamura

Affiliation Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Oxford, United Kingdom

Hideaki Nagase

Affiliation Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Oxford, United Kingdom

Alessandra Carriero

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, United States of America

Sandra Shefelbine

Affiliation College of Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States of America

Andrew A. Pitsillides

Affiliation Comparative Biomedical Sciences, The Royal Veterinary College, London, United Kingdom

George Bou-Gharios

ggharios@liverpool.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Musculoskeletal Biology, Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, University of Liverpool, Apex building, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SS AAP GBG. Formal analysis: BP KL DP PV MS KS AS AC SS AAP GBG. Funding acquisition: AAP GBG. Investigation: BP KL DP PV MS KS AS AC. Methodology: KL PV MS KS H. Nakamura H. Nagase AC SS AAP GBG. Resources: H. Nakamura H. Nagase AAP GBG. Writing – original draft: BP MS AC SS AAP GBG. Writing – review & editing: BP MS KS AS SS AAP GBG.