About the Authors

Myung Jae Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Myung Jae Yang, Sooyeon Sim

Current address: YL St. Mary's ENT Clinic, Seoul, Korea

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, St. Vincent's Hospital, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

Sooyeon Sim

Contributed equally to this work with: Myung Jae Yang, Sooyeon Sim

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Ji Hyun Jeon

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Eojin Jeong

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Hyoung-Chin Kim

Affiliation Biomedical Mouse Resource Center, Ochang Branch, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Ochang-eup, Chungcheongbuk-do, Korea

Yong-Jin Park

yp@catholic.ac.kr (YJP); ibkimmd@catholic.ac.kr (IBK)

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, St. Vincent's Hospital, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

In-Beom Kim

yp@catholic.ac.kr (YJP); ibkimmd@catholic.ac.kr (IBK)

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJY SS YJP IBK. Performed the experiments: MJY SS JHJ EJ. Analyzed the data: MJY SS HCK YJP IBK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJY SS JHJ EJ. Wrote the paper: MJY SS YJP IBK.