About the Authors

Su-li Wang

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Bin Wu

Affiliation Clinical Outcomes and Economics Group, Department of pharmacy, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Li-an Zhu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Section of Rheumatology, Yale University School of Medicine, The Anlyan Center, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Lin Leng

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Section of Rheumatology, Yale University School of Medicine, The Anlyan Center, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Richard Bucala

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Section of Rheumatology, Yale University School of Medicine, The Anlyan Center, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Liang-jing Lu

lu_liangjing@medmail.com.cn

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SlW BW LjL. Performed the experiments: SlW LaZ LjL. Analyzed the data: SlW BW LaZ LL RB LjL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SlW LaZ LjL. Wrote the paper: SlW LjL LL RB.