About the Authors

Renqiang Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Renqiang Ma, Yi Wei

Affiliation Allergy and Cancer Center, Otorhinolarygology Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Yi Wei

Contributed equally to this work with: Renqiang Ma, Yi Wei

Affiliation Allergy and Cancer Center, Otorhinolarygology Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Xiaoming Huang

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Ran Fu

Affiliation Allergy and Cancer Center, Otorhinolarygology Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Xi Luo

Affiliation Allergy and Cancer Center, Otorhinolarygology Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Xiaolin Zhu

Affiliation Allergy and Cancer Center, Otorhinolarygology Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Wenbin Lei

Affiliation Allergy and Cancer Center, Otorhinolarygology Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Jugao Fang

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Huabin Li

wwp1901@yahoo.com.cn (WW); allergyli@163.com (HL)

Affiliation Allergy and Cancer Center, Otorhinolarygology Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Weiping Wen

wwp1901@yahoo.com.cn (WW); allergyli@163.com (HL)

Affiliation Allergy and Cancer Center, Otorhinolarygology Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WW HL. Performed the experiments: RM YW RF XL XH XZ JF. Analyzed the data: YW WL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RM YW. Wrote the paper: HL.