About the Authors

Yimin Mao

Contributed equally to this work with: Yimin Mao, Su-Wei Kuo

Affiliations Applied Science Institute, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Jiangxi, China, Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Su-Wei Kuo

Contributed equally to this work with: Yimin Mao, Su-Wei Kuo

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Le Chen

Affiliation Applied Science Institute, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Jiangxi, China

C. J. Heckman

Affiliations Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

M. C. Jiang

m-jiang@northwestern.edu

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YM SWK MJ. Data curation: YM LC SWK. Formal analysis: YM LC SWK. Funding acquisition: SWK CJH MJ. Investigation: YM LC SWK. Methodology: YM SWK MJ. Project administration: YM SWK MJ. Resources: YM CJH MJ. Software: YM LC. Supervision: YM CJH MJ. Validation: YM SWK MJ. Visualization: YM SWK. Writing – original draft: YM SWK. Writing – review & editing: YM SWK MJ.