About the Authors

Zhongping Mao

hed@creighton.edu (DH); mzp575@gmail.com (ZM)

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Shaoxing Second Hospital, Shaoxing, P. R. China

Lijun Zhao

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Shaoxing Second Hospital, Shaoxing, P. R. China

Lichun Pu

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Shaoxing Second Hospital, Shaoxing, P. R. China

Mingxiao Wang

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Shaoxing Second Hospital, Shaoxing, P. R. China

Qian Zhang

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

David Z. Z. He

hed@creighton.edu (DH); mzp575@gmail.com (ZM)

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America, Ningbo University School of Medicine, Ningbo, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZM DZZH. Performed the experiments: ZM LZ LP MW. Analyzed the data: ZM QZ DZZH. Wrote the paper: ZM DZZH.