About the Authors

Yafei Feng

Contributed equally to this work with: Yafei Feng, Yi Liu, Lin Wang

Affiliations Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China, Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Yi Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yafei Feng, Yi Liu, Lin Wang

Affiliations Department of Oral Implantology, School of Stomatology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China, Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Lin Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yafei Feng, Yi Liu, Lin Wang

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Xiaoqing Cai

Affiliation Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Dexin Wang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Kaimin Wu

Affiliation Department of Urology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Hongli Chen

Affiliation Department of Toxicology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Jia Li

leiwei@fmmu.edu.cn (WL); jiali816@hotmail.com (JL)

Affiliation Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Wei Lei

leiwei@fmmu.edu.cn (WL); jiali816@hotmail.com (JL)

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Revised the manuscript: WL. Conceived and designed the experiments: YFF YL LW JL WL. Performed the experiments: YFF YL XQC DXW KMW. Analyzed the data: YFF YL LW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HLC. Wrote the paper: YFF JL.