About the Authors

Wei Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Gao, Chunming Zhang

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, No. 1 Hospital, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, Key Institute and Laboratory of Otolaryngology affiliated with Shanxi Province, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Chunming Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Gao, Chunming Zhang

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, No. 1 Hospital, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, Key Institute and Laboratory of Otolaryngology affiliated with Shanxi Province, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Yan Feng

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, No. 1 Hospital, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, Key Institute and Laboratory of Otolaryngology affiliated with Shanxi Province, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Ganggang Chen

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, No. 1 Hospital, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Shuxin Wen

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, No. 1 Hospital, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, Key Institute and Laboratory of Otolaryngology affiliated with Shanxi Province, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Hui Huangfu

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, No. 1 Hospital, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, Key Institute and Laboratory of Otolaryngology affiliated with Shanxi Province, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Binquan Wang

wbq_xy@yahoo.com.cn

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, No. 1 Hospital, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, Key Institute and Laboratory of Otolaryngology affiliated with Shanxi Province, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BQW WG HHF SXW. Performed the experiments: WG CMZ YF GGC. Analyzed the data: WG CMZ YF SXW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BQW HHF SXW. Wrote the paper: WG CMZ GGC.