About the Authors

Hongfei Lou

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongfei Lou, Jugao Fang

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing TongRen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, PR China, Beijing Key Laboratory of nasal diseases, Beijing Institute of Otolaryngology, Beijing, PR China

Jugao Fang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongfei Lou, Jugao Fang

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing TongRen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, PR China

Pingdong Li

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing TongRen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, PR China

Weiguo Zhou

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing TongRen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, PR China

Yang Wang

Affiliation Beijing Key Laboratory of nasal diseases, Beijing Institute of Otolaryngology, Beijing, PR China

Erzhong Fan

Affiliation Beijing Key Laboratory of nasal diseases, Beijing Institute of Otolaryngology, Beijing, PR China

Ying Li

Affiliation Beijing Key Laboratory of nasal diseases, Beijing Institute of Otolaryngology, Beijing, PR China

Hong Wang

Affiliation Beijing Key Laboratory of nasal diseases, Beijing Institute of Otolaryngology, Beijing, PR China

Zhongyan Liu

Affiliation Beijing Key Laboratory of nasal diseases, Beijing Institute of Otolaryngology, Beijing, PR China

Lei Xiao

Affiliation Sections of Pulmonary & Cardiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Chengshuo Wang

wangcs830@126.com (CW); dr.luozhang@gmail.com (LZ)

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing TongRen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, PR China

Luo Zhang

wangcs830@126.com (CW); dr.luozhang@gmail.com (LZ)

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing TongRen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, PR China, Beijing Key Laboratory of nasal diseases, Beijing Institute of Otolaryngology, Beijing, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HL JF LX CW LZ. Performed the experiments: YW EF YL HW ZL. Analyzed the data: HL JF LX CW LZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PL WZ. Wrote the paper: HL JF LX CW LZ.