About the Authors

Liang Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Liang Zhang, Xiao-Feng Wang

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Xiao-Feng Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Liang Zhang, Xiao-Feng Wang

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Yu-Shui Ma

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Shanghai 10th People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Qing Xia

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Feng Zhang

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Da Fu

superdafu@hotmail.com (DF); wang_yichao001@126.com (YCW)

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences/Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Yi-Chao Wang

superdafu@hotmail.com (DF); wang_yichao001@126.com (YCW)

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LZ XFW DF YCW. Performed the experiments: LZ XFW YSM QX FZ. Analyzed the data: LZ XFW YSM QX FZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LZ XFW YSM QX FZ. Wrote the paper: LZ XFW DF YCW.