About the Authors

Yan-Sheng Liu

Affiliation People’s Liberation Army Clinical Center for Spinal Cord Injury, Kunming General Hospital of People’s Liberation Army, Kunming, P. R. China

Ya-Ping Feng

Affiliation People’s Liberation Army Clinical Center for Spinal Cord Injury, Kunming General Hospital of People’s Liberation Army, Kunming, P. R. China

Jia-Xin Xie

Affiliation People’s Liberation Army Clinical Center for Spinal Cord Injury, Kunming General Hospital of People’s Liberation Army, Kunming, P. R. China

Zhuo-Jing Luo

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, P.R. China

Cai-Hong Shen

Affiliation People’s Liberation Army Clinical Center for Spinal Cord Injury, Kunming General Hospital of People’s Liberation Army, Kunming, P. R. China

Fang Niu

Affiliation People’s Liberation Army Clinical Center for Spinal Cord Injury, Kunming General Hospital of People’s Liberation Army, Kunming, P. R. China

Jian Zou

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory Science,The First Wuxi Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, P.R. China

Shao-Feng Tang

Affiliation People’s Liberation Army Clinical Center for Spinal Cord Injury, Kunming General Hospital of People’s Liberation Army, Kunming, P. R. China

Jiang Hao

Affiliation Emergency Department, Kunming General Hospital of People’s Liberation Army, Kunming, P. R. China

Jia-Xiang Xu

Affiliation Yunnan Emergency Center, Kunming, P. R. China

Li-Ping Xiao

Affiliation Yunnan Emergency Center, Kunming, P. R. China

Xiao-Ming Xu

kmzhuhui@sina.com (HZ); xu26@iupui.edu (XMX)

Affiliation Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Group, Department of Neurological Surgery, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, School of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Hui Zhu

kmzhuhui@sina.com (HZ); xu26@iupui.edu (XMX)

Affiliation People’s Liberation Army Clinical Center for Spinal Cord Injury, Kunming General Hospital of People’s Liberation Army, Kunming, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HZ YSL YPF JXX ZJL XMX. Performed the experiments: HZ YSL YPF CHS FN SFT JH JXX LPX. Analyzed the data: HZ JXX XMX. Wrote the paper: HZ JXX JZ XMX.