About the Authors

Abdelrahman Alharazneh

Contributed equally to this work with: Abdelrahman Alharazneh, Lauren Luk

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Special Surgery, Mu'tah University, Alkarak, Jordan

Lauren Luk

Contributed equally to this work with: Abdelrahman Alharazneh, Lauren Luk

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Markus Huth

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Ashkan Monfared

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Peter S. Steyger

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Alan G. Cheng

aglcheng@stanford.edu (AGC); aricci@stanford.edu (AJR)

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Anthony J. Ricci

aglcheng@stanford.edu (AGC); aricci@stanford.edu (AJR)

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AJR AGC. Performed the experiments: AA LL MH AM AJR AGC. Analyzed the data: AA LL MH AJR AGC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PSS AJR. Wrote the paper: AJR AGC.