About the Authors

Yuan Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuan Zhang, Su Duan

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing Institute of Otorhinolaryngology, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing TongRen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Su Duan

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuan Zhang, Su Duan

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing TongRen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Xiaoping Lin

Affiliation Center of Allergy and Immunotherapy, The General Hospital of Shenyang Military Command, Shenyang, People's Republic of China

Wei Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing Institute of Otorhinolaryngology, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Na Meng

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing Institute of Otorhinolaryngology, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Liping Zhao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing Institute of Otorhinolaryngology, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Yan Zhao

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing TongRen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Demin Han

dr.luozhang@gmail.com (LZ)handm@trhos.com (DH)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing Institute of Otorhinolaryngology, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing TongRen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Luo Zhang

dr.luozhang@gmail.com (LZ)handm@trhos.com (DH)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing Institute of Otorhinolaryngology, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing TongRen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DH LZ. Performed the experiments: YZ SD XL WZ NM LZ YZ. Analyzed the data: YZ LZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZ LZ. Wrote the paper: YZ LZ.