About the Authors

Lijie Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lijie Liu, Hui Wang, Lijuan Shi, Awad Almuklass

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical College of Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Hui Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lijie Liu, Hui Wang, Lijuan Shi, Awad Almuklass

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, 6th Affiliated Hospital, Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China

Lijuan Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Lijie Liu, Hui Wang, Lijuan Shi, Awad Almuklass

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical College of Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Awad Almuklass

Contributed equally to this work with: Lijie Liu, Hui Wang, Lijuan Shi, Awad Almuklass

Affiliation Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Tingting He

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical College of Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Steve Aiken

Affiliation School of Human Communication Disorders, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Manohar Bance

Affiliations School of Human Communication Disorders, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, Division of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Shankai Yin

shankaiyin@china.com (SY); Jian.Wang@dal.ca (JW)

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, 6th Affiliated Hospital, Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China

Jian Wang

shankaiyin@china.com (SY); Jian.Wang@dal.ca (JW)

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical College of Southeast University, Nanjing, China, School of Human Communication Disorders, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JW SY. Performed the experiments: LL HW LS AA TH. Analyzed the data: SA MB. Wrote the paper: SA MB SY JW.