About the Authors

Dan Xing

Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Xing, XinLong Ma

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics Institute, Tianjin Hospital, Tianjin, China, Department of Orthopaedics, Tianjin Gongan Hospital, Tianjin, China

XinLong Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Xing, XinLong Ma

tjmuld@gmail.com (XLM); mjx969@163.com (JXM)

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics Institute, Tianjin Hospital, Tianjin, China, Department of Orthopaedics, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China

JianXiong Ma

tjmuld@gmail.com (XLM); mjx969@163.com (JXM)

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China

Jie Wang

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China

Yang Chen

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics Institute, Tianjin Hospital, Tianjin, China

Yang Yang

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics Institute, Tianjin Hospital, Tianjin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DX XM. Performed the experiments: DX JW JM. Analyzed the data: YC YY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DX JW. Wrote the paper: DX XM.