About the Authors

Jianying Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MechanoBiology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Daibang Nie

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliations MechanoBiology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America, Department of Immunology, College of Basic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Kelly Williamson

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MechanoBiology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Arthur McDowell

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliations MechanoBiology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington D.C., United States of America

MaCalus V. Hogan

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation MechanoBiology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

James H-C. Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

wanghc@pitt.edu

Affiliations MechanoBiology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.