About the Authors

An-an Yin

Contributed equally to this work with: An-an Yin, Lu-hua Zhang, Jin-xiang Cheng

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Xijing Institute of Clinical Neuroscience, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, The People's Republic of China

Lu-hua Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: An-an Yin, Lu-hua Zhang, Jin-xiang Cheng

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Xijing Institute of Clinical Neuroscience, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, The People's Republic of China

Jin-xiang Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: An-an Yin, Lu-hua Zhang, Jin-xiang Cheng

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Xijing Institute of Clinical Neuroscience, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, The People's Republic of China

Yu Dong

Affiliation Department of Prosthodontics, School of Stomatology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, The People's Republic of China

Bo-lin Liu

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Xijing Institute of Clinical Neuroscience, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, The People's Republic of China

Ning Han

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Xijing Institute of Clinical Neuroscience, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, The People's Republic of China

Xiang Zhang

xzhang@fmmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Xijing Institute of Clinical Neuroscience, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, The People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AAY JXC. Performed the experiments: AAY LHZ. Analyzed the data: AAY LHZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NH XZ. Wrote the paper: AAY BLL YD.