About the Authors

Liwen Chen

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Edward E. Tredget

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Philip Y. G. Wu

Affiliation Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Yaojiong Wu

yjwu2005@yahoo.com

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Shenzhen University School of Medicine, Shenzhen, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW. Performed the experiments: YW LC PW. Analyzed the data: YW LC ET. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YW ET. Wrote the paper: YW.