About the Authors

Wan Tai Seet

Affiliation Tissue Engineering Centre, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Manira Maarof

Affiliation Tissue Engineering Centre, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Khairoji Khairul Anuar

Affiliation Tissue Engineering Centre, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Kien-Hui Chua

Affiliations Tissue Engineering Centre, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Abdul Wahab Ahmad Irfan

Affiliation Tissue Engineering Centre, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Min Hwei Ng

Affiliation Tissue Engineering Centre, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Bin Saim Aminuddin

Affiliations Tissue Engineering Centre, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Ear, Nose and Throat Consultant Clinic, Ampang Puteri Specialist Hospital, Selangor, Malaysia

Bt Hj Idrus Ruszymah

ruszyidrus@gmail.com

Affiliations Tissue Engineering Centre, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BHIR. Performed the experiments: WTS MM KKA AWAI KHC. Analyzed the data: WTS MM KHC BHIR. Wrote the manuscript: WTS MM BHIR. Provided biological samples: BSA. Supervisors for the project: BHIR MHN BSA.