About the Authors

Xing-Feng Zheng

Affiliations Tissue Engineering and Reparative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff, United Kingdom, Burn Unit, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Yu-Xiao Hong

Affiliations Tissue Engineering and Reparative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff, United Kingdom, Department of Dermatology, No. 1 Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China

Gui-Jie Feng

Affiliation School of Bioscience, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Gao-Feng Zhang

Affiliation Tissue Engineering and Reparative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Helen Rogers

Affiliation Tissue Engineering and Reparative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Michael A. O. Lewis

Affiliation Tissue Engineering and Reparative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff, United Kingdom

David W. Williams

Affiliation Tissue Engineering and Reparative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Zhao-Fan Xia

Affiliation Burn Unit, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Bing Song

Affiliation Tissue Engineering and Reparative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Xiao-Qing Wei

weix1@cf.ac.uk

Affiliation Tissue Engineering and Reparative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XQW. Performed the experiments: XFZ YXH GJF GFZ HR XQW. Analyzed the data: XFZ YXH GJF MAOL DWW BS XQW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HR GJF MAOL DWW BS XQW. Wrote the paper: DWW XQW. Designed and supervised the project: XQW. Experiments carried out by: XFZ YXH GJF GFZ HR XQW. Data analysis and statistics: XFZ YXH GJF DWW XQW. Discussion and manuscript writing: MAOL DWW XQW. Provided financial support for this project: MAOL BS ZFX XQW.