Zhang, Weifeng
Li, Gaocai http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2664-0957
Luo, Rongjin
Lei, Jie
Song, Yu
Wang, Bingjin
Ma, Liang
Liao, Zhiwei
Ke, Wencan
Liu, Hui
Hua, Wenbin
Zhao, Kangcheng
Feng, Xiaobo
Wu, Xinghuo
Zhang, Yukun
Wang, Kun
Yang, Cao http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0058-614X
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (82072505, 81902259, 82002366, 81772401)
Article History
Received: 30 June 2021
Revised: 10 November 2021
Accepted: 24 November 2021
First Online: 10 February 2022
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study protocol of using patients was approved by the Ethics Committee of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (No. S341). The protocol of the animal model of intradiscal injection was approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) at Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (No. S2394).