About the Authors

Ji-Nan Dai

Contributed equally to this work with: Ji-Nan Dai, Yi Zong

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Yi Zong

Contributed equally to this work with: Ji-Nan Dai, Yi Zong

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Lian-Mei Zhong

Affiliation Department of Neurology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Yue-Min Li

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Wei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Li-Gong Bian

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Qing-Long Ai

Affiliation Department of Neurology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Yi-Dan Liu

Affiliation Kunming Pharmaceutical Corporation, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Jun Sun

sunjun91@hotmail.com (JS); ludi20040609@126.com (DL)

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Di Lu

sunjun91@hotmail.com (JS); ludi20040609@126.com (DL)

Affiliations Department of Anatomy, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China, Rehabilitation Engineering Research Laboratory, Biomedicine Engineering Research Centre, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Competing Interests

One of the authors, Y. D. Liu, is employed by a commercial company, Kunming Pharmaceutical Corporation. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JS DL. Performed the experiments: J-ND YZ L-MZ WZ. Analyzed the data: Y-ML J-ND JS L-GB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZ Q-LA Y-DL Y-ML. Wrote the paper: DL J-ND.