Moderate and intensive mechanical loading differentially modulate the phenotype of tendon stem/progenitor cells in vivo

• Jianying Zhang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MechanoBiology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

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• Daibang Nie,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliations MechanoBiology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America, Department of Immunology, College of Basic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

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• Kelly Williamson,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MechanoBiology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7529-0220

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• Arthur McDowell,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliations MechanoBiology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington D.C., United States of America

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• MaCalus V. Hogan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliation MechanoBiology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

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• James H-C. Wang

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wanghc@pitt.edu

  Affiliations MechanoBiology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7279-0679

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