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aThe Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China. bDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Xiangyang Central Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Hubei University of Arts and Science, Xiangyang, China. cSchool of Sport Medicine and Rehabilitation, Beijing Sport University, Beijing, China. dDuke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA. eClinical College of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Neurorehabilitation, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China. fDuke Molecular Physiology Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA. Kunming Cheng, Zaijie Sun and Yongbin He. These authors have contributed equally to this work and share the first authorship. The data underlying this article will be shared by the corresponding author on reasonable request. Sponsorships or competing interests that may be relevant to content are disclosed at the end of this article. *Corresponding author. Address: E-mail address: email protected (H. Wu). *Corresponding author. Address: E-mail address: email protected (S. Gu). Supplemental Digital Content is available for this article. Direct URL citations are provided in the HTML and PDF versions of this article on the journal's website, www.journal-surgery.net. Published online ■ ■ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work, even for commercial purposes, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/