About the Authors

Ai-Min Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ai-Min Wu, Zhen-Xuan Shao

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Zhejiang Spinal Research Center, 109# Xue Yuan Western Road, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China

Zhen-Xuan Shao

Contributed equally to this work with: Ai-Min Wu, Zhen-Xuan Shao

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Zhejiang Spinal Research Center, 109# Xue Yuan Western Road, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China

Jian-Shun Wang

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Zhejiang Spinal Research Center, 109# Xue Yuan Western Road, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China

Xin-Dong Yang

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Wenzhou Medical University, Higher Education Zone, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China

Wan-Qing Weng

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Zhejiang Spinal Research Center, 109# Xue Yuan Western Road, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China

Xiang-Yang Wang

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Zhejiang Spinal Research Center, 109# Xue Yuan Western Road, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China

Hua-Zi Xu

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Zhejiang Spinal Research Center, 109# Xue Yuan Western Road, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China

Yong-Long Chi

spinechi@163.com (YLC); zhongkelin@163.com (ZKL)

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Zhejiang Spinal Research Center, 109# Xue Yuan Western Road, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China

Zhong-Ke Lin

spinechi@163.com (YLC); zhongkelin@163.com (ZKL)

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Zhejiang Spinal Research Center, 109# Xue Yuan Western Road, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMW ZXS XYW HZX YLC. Performed the experiments: AMW ZXS YLC ZKL. Analyzed the data: JSW XDY WQW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMW ZXS XDY. Wrote the paper: AMW ZXS YLC ZKL.