About the Authors

Zhengqi Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhengqi Chang, Tianyong Hou

Affiliations National & Regional United Engineering Lab of Tissue Engineering, Department of Orthopaedics, Southwest Hospital, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China, Center of Tissue Engineering Research and Application, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China, Laboratory of Tissue Engineering, Chongqing City, Chongqing, China, Department of Orthopedics, General Hospital of Jinan Military Commanding Region, Jinan, China

Tianyong Hou

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhengqi Chang, Tianyong Hou

tianyonghou@126.com (TH); jianzhong_xu@126.com (JX)

Affiliations National & Regional United Engineering Lab of Tissue Engineering, Department of Orthopaedics, Southwest Hospital, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China, Center of Tissue Engineering Research and Application, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China, Laboratory of Tissue Engineering, Chongqing City, Chongqing, China

Junchao Xing

Affiliations National & Regional United Engineering Lab of Tissue Engineering, Department of Orthopaedics, Southwest Hospital, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China, Center of Tissue Engineering Research and Application, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China, Laboratory of Tissue Engineering, Chongqing City, Chongqing, China

Xuehui Wu

Affiliations National & Regional United Engineering Lab of Tissue Engineering, Department of Orthopaedics, Southwest Hospital, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China, Center of Tissue Engineering Research and Application, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China, Laboratory of Tissue Engineering, Chongqing City, Chongqing, China

Huiyong Jin

Affiliations National & Regional United Engineering Lab of Tissue Engineering, Department of Orthopaedics, Southwest Hospital, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China, Center of Tissue Engineering Research and Application, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China, Laboratory of Tissue Engineering, Chongqing City, Chongqing, China

Zhiqiang Li

Affiliations National & Regional United Engineering Lab of Tissue Engineering, Department of Orthopaedics, Southwest Hospital, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China, Center of Tissue Engineering Research and Application, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China, Laboratory of Tissue Engineering, Chongqing City, Chongqing, China

Moyuan Deng

Affiliations National & Regional United Engineering Lab of Tissue Engineering, Department of Orthopaedics, Southwest Hospital, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China, Center of Tissue Engineering Research and Application, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China, Laboratory of Tissue Engineering, Chongqing City, Chongqing, China

Zhao Xie

Affiliations National & Regional United Engineering Lab of Tissue Engineering, Department of Orthopaedics, Southwest Hospital, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China, Center of Tissue Engineering Research and Application, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China, Laboratory of Tissue Engineering, Chongqing City, Chongqing, China

Jianzhong Xu

tianyonghou@126.com (TH); jianzhong_xu@126.com (JX)

Affiliations National & Regional United Engineering Lab of Tissue Engineering, Department of Orthopaedics, Southwest Hospital, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China, Center of Tissue Engineering Research and Application, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China, Laboratory of Tissue Engineering, Chongqing City, Chongqing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TH J. Xu. Performed the experiments: ZC J. Xing XW HJ ZL. Analyzed the data: MD ZX. Wrote the paper: ZC TH.