About the Authors

Lijuan Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Lijuan Shi, Lijie Liu

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

Lijie Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lijuan Shi, Lijie Liu

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

Tingting He

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

Xiaojing Guo

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

Zhiping Yu

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

Shankai Yin

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

Jian Wang

Jian.Wang@dal.ca

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: LS LL SY JW. Performed the experiments: LS LS TH XG ZY JW. Analyzed the data: LS LL JW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZY. Wrote the paper: LS LL SY JW.