aDepartment of Life Sciences

bKey Laboratory of Human Microenvironment and Precision Medicine of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Anhui University, Hefei

cDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, ENT Institute, and NHC Key Laboratory of Hearing Medicine, Eye & ENT Hospital

dInstitutes of Brain Science, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, and MOE Frontiers Center for Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Received 3 April 2024 Accepted 29 April 2024.

*All authors contributed equally to the writing of this article.

Correspondence to Zheng-Quan Tang, PhD, School of Life Sciences, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China Tel: +86 181 1096 6646; e-mail: [email protected]