About the Authors

Shi-Ming Yang

yangsm301@263.net (SMY); hed@creighton.edu (DZZH)

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Institute of Otolaryngology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Wei Chen

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, PLA Air Force General Hospital, Beijing, China

Wei-Wei Guo

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Institute of Otolaryngology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Shuping Jia

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Jian-He Sun

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Institute of Otolaryngology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Hui-Zhan Liu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Wie-Yen Young

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Institute of Otolaryngology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

David Z. Z. He

yangsm301@263.net (SMY); hed@creighton.edu (DZZH)

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DH SMY. Performed the experiments: SMY WC WWG SPJ JHS HZL WYY DH. Analyzed the data: WC WWG SPJ JHS HZL WYY DH. Wrote the paper: DH.