From the ∗Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine Rheumatology
†Beijing Key Lab for Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China
‡Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine
§Department of Radiology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
∥Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine Rheumatology, Guangdong Second Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China
¶Neuroanatomical Department, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number 81403378), the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (grant number 7182148), China-Japan Friendship Hospital Youth Science and Technology Excellence Project (grant number 2014-QNYC-B-02), and by a research grant from the Spondylitis Association of America.
Correspondence: Xiaoping Yan, MD, Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine Rheumatology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, No. 2, Yinghua East St, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100029, China. E-mail: [email protected]; or Weiping Kong, MD, Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine Rheumatology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, No. 2, Yinghua East St, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100029, China. E-mail: [email protected].
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