About the Authors

Do-Yang Park

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

entdyp@ajou.ac.kr (DYP); entman@yuhs.ac (CHK)

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Republic of Korea, Department of Medicine, Graduate School, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Chang-Hoon Kim

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

entdyp@ajou.ac.kr (DYP); entman@yuhs.ac (CHK)

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, The Airway Mucus Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Da-Young Park

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Republic of Korea

Hyun Jun Kim

Roles Validation

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Republic of Korea

Hyung-Ju Cho

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, The Airway Mucus Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.