From the 1Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Longhua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China; 2Institute of Integrated Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; and 3Institute of Spine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Received April 7, 2011; revised and accepted May 31, 2011.
Funding/support: This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program in China (973 Plan, 2010CB530402, 2010CB530404), the National Natural Foundation Committee of China (key grant 30930111), and the Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (81001526). Support was also provided by the Shanghai Science and Technology Development Funds (11QA1406600), the Theories and Therapies of Bones Province Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, Shanghai University, the Shanghai Education Commission Innovation Team Programme Section 6 (2009); and the Ministry of Education senior personnel funding sources: Professor Changjiang Scholar Program (Teaching People, 2009, 17).
Qin Bian and Shu-fen Liu contributed equally to this work.
Financial disclosure/conflicts of interest: None reported.
Address correspondence to: Yong-jun Wang, PhD, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Longhua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, No. 725 South Wan-ping Road, Shanghai 200032, China. E-mail: [email protected]; Zi-yin Shen, BS, Institute of Integrated Traditional Chinese Medicine & Western Medicine, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 200040. E-mail: [email protected]
