About the Authors

Fang Xie

Contributed equally to this work with: Fang Xie, Han Fu

Affiliations Institute for Biomedical Sciences of Pain and Institute for Functional Brain Disorders, Tangdu Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, P. R. China, Key Laboratory of Brain Stress and Behavior, PLA, Xi'an, PR China

Han Fu

Contributed equally to this work with: Fang Xie, Han Fu

Affiliations Institute for Biomedical Sciences of Pain and Institute for Functional Brain Disorders, Tangdu Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, P. R. China, Key Laboratory of Brain Stress and Behavior, PLA, Xi'an, PR China

Jun-Feng Hou

Affiliations Institute for Biomedical Sciences of Pain and Institute for Functional Brain Disorders, Tangdu Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, P. R. China, Department of Endocrinology, Tangdu Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, P. R. China

Kai Jiao

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Tangdu Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, P. R. China

Michael Costigan

Affiliation F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jun Chen

junchen@fmmu.edu.cn

Affiliations Institute for Biomedical Sciences of Pain and Institute for Functional Brain Disorders, Tangdu Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, P. R. China, Key Laboratory of Brain Stress and Behavior, PLA, Xi'an, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JC. Performed the experiments: FX HF J-FH. Analyzed the data: FX HF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FX HF KJ. Wrote the paper: JC MC.