About the Authors

Mei-Ping Lu

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Ruo-Xi Chen

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Mei-Lin Wang

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Genetic Toxicology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Xin-Jie Zhu

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Lu-Ping Zhu

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Min Yin

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, International Centre for Allergy Research, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Zheng-Dong Zhang

jspent@126.com (LC); zdzhang@njmu.edu.cn (Z-DZ)

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Genetic Toxicology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Lei Cheng

jspent@126.com (LC); zdzhang@njmu.edu.cn (Z-DZ)

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, International Centre for Allergy Research, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: M-PL R-XC LC. Performed the experiments: M-PL M-LW X-JZ L-PZ MY LC. Analyzed the data: M-PL Z-DZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Z-DZ LC. Wrote the paper: M-PL R-XC.