About the Authors

Mee Hyun Song

Contributed equally to this work with: Mee Hyun Song, Tae-Jun Kwon, Hui Ram Kim

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Kwandong University College of Medicine, Myongji Hospital, Goyang, South Korea

Tae-Jun Kwon

Contributed equally to this work with: Mee Hyun Song, Tae-Jun Kwon, Hui Ram Kim

Affiliation Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea

Hui Ram Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Mee Hyun Song, Tae-Jun Kwon, Hui Ram Kim

Affiliation Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea

Ju Hyun Jeon

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Inje University College of Medicine, Goyang, South Korea

Jeong-In Baek

Affiliation Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea

Won-Sang Lee

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

Un-Kyung Kim

jychoi@yuhs.ac (JYC); kimuk@knu.ac.kr (U-KK)

Affiliation Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea

Jae Young Choi

jychoi@yuhs.ac (JYC); kimuk@knu.ac.kr (U-KK)

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MHS U-KK JYC. Performed the experiments: T-JK HRK J-IB. Analyzed the data: MHS T-JK HRK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MHS JHJ W-SL JYC. Wrote the paper: MHS HRK U-KK JYC.